Forcing me to create an account after a certain amount of interaction without explaining what the account is for, or providing any information about how my personal data will be used is an antifeature. Depending on the jurisdiction, it may also be a legal issue.
That said, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that this is a work in progress and that you'll be adding additional information about how you use my data soon?
That is a completely fair point, i'll bump up the interaction limit to 1000 while i figure out another way to rate limit interactions with the advanced search page.
Yeah you're right, i've been working on this for two weeks so far and haven't thought that portion out yet. Will see if i can add some form of anonymous login to avoid needing an email.
Just need the email to associate with an account to persist the collections + wishlists features at the moment
You can do this with a persistent cookie. Of course the saved data won't transfer from device to device without a login. But username/password is sufficient for that so long as you don't allow freeform discussion. If you allow any kind of anonymous discussion then you've just created a new 4chan.
That said, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that this is a work in progress and that you'll be adding additional information about how you use my data soon?