I have a lot of respect for the people at Lanyrd for one simple reason - I was going to signup for them but realised that they only supported Twitter authentication in the early days. They were asking for permission to do all kinds of things to my stream, which as I understood it later to be the only option at the time. I tweeted about it, they replied and said "sorry about that" then a few months went by. Out of the blue I get a tweet - hey we no longer require Twitter authentication! I couldn't believe it - really great case of tracking down sources of early negative feedback long after I'd forgotten about the issue and reminding me that they were still there, and still improving. Fantastic.
Thanks very much. That issue was a pretty tough one for us - we ended up investing quite a bit of work in fixing it so we could ask for read-only permissions when people first sign in and then ask them to upgrade to write permissions only if they attempted to do something that required them (like clicking "follow" on another user): http://lanyrd.com/blog/2012/twitter-read-only/
It was worth fixing though - only a small number of people really cared, but they were the kind of discerning user that we wanted to reach. Plus it was clearly the right thing to do.
