Comments on: Announcing InDesignSecrets Free Membership!

By: deane4work

deane4work — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:32:16 +0000

Signed up, thanks for the “free” offer! Looking forward to all the InDesign secrets coming my way. – Deano

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:29:31 +0000

@Hill: Not at all — we want you to join! In general, you should receive the confirmation email after about 1 or 2 minutes!

In almost all cases where the confirmation email doesn’t show up, it has gotten caught in a spam filter. In a few cases, however, the person’s mail server has held it for some other weird reason.

If you have a different email that you can use, I would try that. For example, perhaps set up a free gmail or yahoo mail account and see if the email gets through to there.

By: Hill

Hill — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:05:19 +0000

I’ve waited more than 24 hours for my code and still have not received it. I tried it again this morning. Still nothing. Does InDesignSecrets.com hate me?

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:54:15 +0000

@skilldrick: I totally agree… I argued with the person who wrote the subscription software to remove that, but it turns out that it’s harder to customize code than it seems. We’ll try to find a way to make it more obvious that “free” really does mean free.

By: skilldrick

skilldrick — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:34:32 +0000

I have to say, the tab at the top that says “Provide payment information” almost put me off joining, until I realised that it was skipped over. It looked like this was going to be “free” rather than free.

By: dlawhfman

dlawhfman — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:33:48 +0000

I’m in! Thanks so much!

By: kjgEnergy

kjgEnergy — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:36:52 +0000

Thanks for the opportunity.

By: erique

erique — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:43:50 +0000

Did my bit for the board and signed on. It took all of 2 seconds for my verification code to come through via email. That’s a happy story, right!

By: jdoverton

jdoverton — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:45:23 +0000

Just one comment. After signing in, you then send a confirmation of the userid and password in clear text over email! You take the time to do a double verification to get signed up, but then take no precautions with the password for that account. I suspect that if I changed the password, I would get a similar confirmation.

Not that I think the world will end should someone get into my account on this site. That is why I am not nitpicking that the login page isn’t SSL encrypted. It just doesn’t seem very secure that any password is sent via email.

By: Eduard

Eduard — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:44:01 +0000

Only one downside. My user-name needs to be five or more char.

Ed.