Oddbean new post about login | logout My guess is that 9/10 users do not write it down because they don’t have pen and paper on hand because they think they can come back and do it later. Even if you say they can’t do it later, they will still not understand the magnitude of the importance of the act. Then they’ll be stuck with an ID forever linked to their account that they don’t actually own or control
Could be solved with toggles that say "I have written down my seed", "I understand that I cannot recover my account without my seed", "I will not share my seed with anyone" etc before allowing them to click Next
There are several wallets that make you reenter you full seed before they will let you continue, forcing you to write it down.
That's a cute idea. Let them hit "Next" and then surprise attack with it, giving them a "Wait! I didn't write down my seed, go back" option
There certainly is something to be said about "shock value" x)
I like the idea of training a user to write down their seed. It is less painful to fix the didn’t write down my seed problem at the beginning rather than after they generate content. You could explain to them that they will be prompted to re-enter their seed value, and you can also explain to them that they can generate another seed at any time but will lose control of their content at that time.
How about you give them the option to be highly insecure and put a button that says "I don't care about security, download as a text file" and it downloads the letters that way, so at least they can come back to their account without so much hassle.
They're going to take a screenshot or cut and paste it into a self chat