[socialmedia] Fwd: Site problem with registration barrier

[Greg Newby]

I heard back from John at the self-publishing site.

He said that the login screen is a temporary measure, because they have had a bunch of cyberattacks and this is their temporary mitigation.
  - Greg

On Thu, May 07, 2020 at 07:19:45AM -0700, Greg Newby wrote:
> FYI (I heard about some of the Facebook complaints):
> 

> Date: Thu, 7 May 2020 07:18:54 -0700
> From: Greg Newby <gbnewby at pglaf.org>
> To: "Support Dept. World Public Library" <support at worldlibrary.net>
> Subject: Site problem with registration barrier
> 
> Hi, John.
> 
> We have been fielding complaints to Project Gutenberg about http://self.gutenberg.org
> 
> There is a pop-up that requires having an elibrary card to get access to the contents. This didn't used to be the case. Verified with Firefox and Chrome.
> 
> Confused readers think they are being blocked from the PG collection, and getting rather indignant about it.
> 
> Would you please consider removing the pop-up?
> 
> Thanks,
>   Greg