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Don't require creating an account or password

Open BryanQuigley opened this issue 7 years ago • 1 comments

To help increase usage of boinc let's remove the account requirement. Allow someone to download the client and contribute without create an account, giving their email, or a password. Each one of those items, adds steps some people won't do.

It may need machine accounts on the backend, but incentives to cheat, etc should really go away.

BryanQuigley avatar Feb 19 '18 20:02 BryanQuigley

I agree. It wouldn't be hard to implement. I think there should be some simple mechanism for such a user to connect to their account later on, and assign an email address and password to it. This would require a small change to the client and Manager.

davidpanderson avatar Feb 20 '18 05:02 davidpanderson