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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OMG No… No more Magic Words!!!! I should never have signed up. hmpf.
Thanks, MDN!
Hello again Ampar!
I’ll join those welcoming your return.
If our remarks get colorful but somehow don’t line up the way you meant, does that mean registration is off?
Wow! My username feels snappier!
Greetings from Micro Ampar, Micro Me.
Who brought snacks and beverages?
k. looks like you gotta enable javascript in NetNewsWire to be able to see respondent’s names, once you log in to MDN in that application.
Oh boy now I have to think of comments that show vision
This isn’t the real effwerd.
Everything’s gone black again…
Just got here. So, is the name spoofing gone, or not?
The comments feel snappier!
Excellent! Maybe now I’ll get the respect I deserve.
I’m looking out my window and seeing snow. I look here and find find and amusement.
Thanks all and MDN.
“We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.” – Edward R Murrow
This is a good thing, but if MDN goes any further (e.g., AppleInsider), it will lose the freewheelin’ style that attracts many of us.
MDN: This is a reasonable balance–please don’t spoil a good thing!!
Now all we need is the ability to edit my screwed up posts.
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I wonder if my name will still show up as blank? That used to happen all the time. Somehow, though, OTHER people could see it, because they would respond using my name. That was weird.
Quick! Somebody register as ZuneTang and start spreading some feel good stories about Mac.
MW = justice. tsss, chalk it up.
Sweeeeet, Thanks MDN!
Thanks MDN! Finally… no spoofers. Welcome back Ampar!
But did Ampar learn anything from his trek in the ‘wilderness’, or did he forsake MDN for the heck of it?
Let me just say, cool.
Is this 10.5.2?
Just spankin, wonderful!
Good show, MDN.