Letting users fill out a form before notifying them that they need to sign in to submit it is scummy and needs to end.
Letting users fill out a form before notifying them that they need to sign in to submit it is scummy and needs to end.
It's clearly a dark pattern thought up by shitbags because users are more likely to create an account after they've typed something out vs. leaving when they find out an account is required to participate.
Even the shitbags over at Mozilla are doing it.