I'm not sure we can always interpret 'optional' as 'nice to have but not necessary'. Optional fields can often cover edge or alternate cases like an apartment number in addition to a street address, a dietary or other accessibility accommodation, etc.
You could work around it by adding a bunch of conditional fields which then move more work onto the person filling in the form (tell me you need the extra fields then I'll show them and they will then be required) and add code complexity (more UI flows to test).
Many optional fields are indeed nice to have but assuming they all are misses that the world has a lot of fuzzy edges, and optional spaces handle those with a simple convention that many people expect and understand.
Sorry for miscommunication. The site is not actual service yet. It is just showing the concept and key values of this service. And the reason why I collect the email is that I wanna validate market needs for this service and notify the opted-in people when the service is launched.
So I changed the button name to 'get notified when launched'.
Roughly the same, I think the variance is about 10% with Steam being an outlier working in tiers tied to revenue. At least one allows developers to name the cut (including 0%) but 30% is the most common number.
Thanks for the feedback and sorry for the inconvenience!
The sign-up page actually does include the password requirements: "The password must be at least 8 characters long and include upper and lowercase letters, numbers and symbols."
In sum:
* 8 chars long minimum
* include all of these: upper and lower case letters, numbers and symbols
I do realize that such a combination of characters is somewhat hard to remember compared to simpler passwords. I'll consider options to simplify all this.
I keep getting an error with the username and finally inspected the validator. I think you could be applying your pwd validation to the username field but I could be wrong, anyway I figured it out eventually.
I feel pretty dumb, sure enough it's right there. Pardon my error I glanced right past that. Positioning the text with the password field would likely help, and/or include all rules in the error message, not just the one that's violated.
The policy and the design of the interface is inextricably linked to that change in interactions. A hands-off policy is still a policy for a site that rewarded more inflammatory content in pursuit of certain metrics.
More crimes are documented because of extra policing, but that is different from whether more crimes are committed. Crimes of different degrees are happening all around, but if you look particularly in one area that is where you'll see crime.