One of the virtues/features of the new interface is that it is not anonymous.
It is more difficult to impersonate someone, and, at the same time, your
email and identity is shielded, while retaining the ability to get mail
notification of activity on a thread.
Thus the signin. Some folks REALLY don't like Passport. There's still NNTP
for them, I guess.
Today is probably the first time I've spent any significant amount of time
using this interface--and I have to admit that it clearly has potential--I'll
be interested to see whether the features which are designed to make it
easier to find the "right" answer to a question really work, over time.
JRosenfeld said:
The only annoying thing is that I now have to sign in each time, aswith the
other news groups. Didn't have to do that before (I always used IE6 or other
IE based browser previously)