this post was submitted on 28 Jul 2024
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This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.
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What happened if you hit start reading without entering an email?
It throws a verification error. You also cannot just provide a nonsense email address
You can't provide any email address, by the looks of it. Even a Gmail address (which I assume would be most likely to be whitelisted) fails. Guess that's one way to force subscriptions...