I see signup with email+password, or google, or github. Did I miss something? It seems perfectly legit, there are alternatives, and github seems much more appropriate than facebook here.
Personally, I very much prefer people to ask me for a social, rather than storing my password.
Oh got it, sorry. Yeah, I can see reasons, but they should definitely split the authorization in 2 parts if you want to also allow access to private repos.
yeah.... but it got me thinking, if you wanted to target HN people, who could quite likely have hugely intresting things in their private repositories.... create a home page like the one shown, label it with tech crunch / etc, make it look enticing, then have a login page like that ask for access to private repos, then get a bunch of HN accounts, give postive comments, and see what you can harvest :)
Personally, I very much prefer people to ask me for a social, rather than storing my password.