As requested by many of our “regulars,” optional registration is now available for MacDailyNews and iPodDailyNews.
What does this mean? Those who register get to reserve their own username that nobody else will be able to use (sorry, spoofers). So, get your name while it lasts! First come, first served. Those who wish to post without registering can continue to do so with whatever name they’d like, but the lack of a “star” symbol after their name denotes that they are not registered.
Directly under “Add Your Feedback” below, you’ll see two new self-explanatory links, “Register” and “Login.”
Register with a real, working email address, so you can receive our confirmation email and be able to click the link contained within to activate your registration. In other words: fake email addresses aren’t going to work.
After you’ve done the quick registration, just login with your username and password and you won’t even need to enter the famous “MDN Magic Word!” You can even choose to “Auto-login on future visits.”
Registration is quick and easy, requiring only the following:
• Username (Must be at least 4 characters long)
• Password (Must be at least 5 characters long)
• Screen Name (Can be 1 or more characters long)
• Email Address (Must to be a real address)
• Agree to the Terms of Service
Entering a URL is optional (actual use TBD in future upgrades)
Whether you decide to register and lock up your very own unique name or not, reader feedback is still open to everyone. Enjoy!
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Finally. Thanks MDN.
Sweet, now let’s remove some of these ads, holy crap. Ever heard of over advertising?
Yeah, baby.
Awesome! Long overdue. Now, how about the ability to edit a post?
@Tre
Yes, Forum style would be nice. Not only for the reasons you listed but also being able to quote and reply directly. Seeing who’s online at any given time, starting your own threads, etc. etc.
MDN, is this a possibility?
Ampar lives again.
And Spoofers just went poofers.
Thanks, MDN.
The man way, way up north is now registered! Go MDN!
AMPAR!!!
Is the word.. “woot…”?
Welcome back, Ampar. Your dreams were your ticket out. Welcome back, to that same old place that you laughed about. The names have all changed since you hung around, but those dreams have remained and they’re turned around. Who’d have thought they’d lead ya, back here where we need ya?
P.S. I wonder if the coveted “Zune Tang” screen name will go to the original or to one of his pale imitators.
Ampar’s triumphant return proves the phrase “You can check out any time you like – but you can never leave!”
Thanks, matt and “Mr. Winston”.
“My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.”
– Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
That’s as deep as I’ll get today. It’s party time.
Thank you !
I will probably miss the MDN tho… 🙁
So prophetic most of the time!
I remember all of the complaints about how the site became narrow but you know it fits perfectly on my iPod touché
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Keep up the good work!
“. . . or to one of his pale imitators.”
Or worse, one of his pail imitators that can’t handle sarcasm well. They take a nice trend and bucket.
R2 is officially onboard. We’re cooking with fire.
Now all we need is an iPhone/iPod touch formatted version of MDN.
Wooot! Very nice update now we can be sure that the person posting really is the same every time.
Giving it a try now — VERY nice. Thanks!!
i’m in
Testing…1..2..3..
At this rate, I’m predicting ten pages. Any takers?
so … how do we log out? I’m unable to see anybody’s name in NetNewsWire now that I’m logged in, although Safari seems to be ok in that regard.
I’ll add my share to your ten page prediction, Ampar.
Now all we need is MDN Poster Badges! For every 62½ postings, we earn an MDN Merit Badge. For every 16.67 MDN Merit Badges earned, we qualify for the MDN Special Recognition Program. Upon doubling those qualifying badges, we will be sent a FREE iMac computer!
Wow! What a great program! Happy I signed up!
But wait, no MDN Magic Word requirement for us?! Why should registered users be penalized! Perhaps we can establish a level of qualification so that we can receive and post extra MDN Magic Words by email!
And editing postings would be really good. That way, when whee misppell sumtheen, wee kin goe kurect itt.
Lets try this..
This should eliminate the spoofing that often clogs up the Comments section.
Nice work MDN.