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James Roberts
4,294 PointsCode Racer Login
Why must code racer require a social media login? I understand the important role social media plays in tech, and especially with developing a career in tech. With this in mind, why not make it optional to login with facebook? I do not have nor do I want a facebook account. Please break whatever ties the code racer game to facebook.
1 Answer
Jim Hoskins
Treehouse Guest TeacherI'd love to give you a good answer as to why it requires facebook. To be perfectly frank I agree with you. I architected most of the realtime parts of the code racer game, but the decision to use facebook login was made by the other members of the team. I honestly don't remember who decided, or if there was a discussion about, it was built in 4 days and it's kind of a blur to me.
Incidentally it was actually difficult for me to test once the login was added because I have facebook blocked on 3rd party sites, so the login didn't work in my browser (without reconfiguring it).
I regret using FB login on code racer, but the whole project was done in just a few days, so if that's what the team thought was needed when we built it, I guess that's the way it goes.
That being said, code racer is officially in maintenance mode. We are trying to keep it running, but further feature development is not planned. Sorry.