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Funniest shit is when you finally sometimes fall victim to the feeling of "Ok fine, I'll use Twitter for the auth so I don't have to fill out the fucking 10 field form just to be able to sign up, why you need to know my current position anyways?" and when you're finished, they're just using the auth to autofill the username and email for the signup form and you have to fill it out regardless.


This is the absolute worst and why does it seem to happen 80% of the time?


Because most teams didn't write their user-auth code, it's either a framework or another team. But the PO want "Sign in with Twitter" so you hack this together.


It's so they can feed the data into the sales team in case their algo thinks you are a viable target to sell things to.


They know people don't always update their profiles and use throwaway accounts. They nudge you to provide actual data.


"Nudge"? You sound like a project manager

Forcing to create a new password and field out additional fields isn't a nudge




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