After @rzc24-nftbbg's work colleague apparently had an issue creating a lite account on Leo and seeing one or more other threads on the topic of lite accounts I decided to make my own Leo lite account to test the system briefly.
In case of rzc24-nftbbg's work colleague, after an exchange of threads with RZC, I think it might be an IP protection implemented for lite accounts to prevent abuses, and since they share the same IP at work, that could explain why he wasn't able to complete the process, from what I understood.
I ended up creating a full account for his friend instead using one of my account creation tokens, since that's what they wanted.
There was someone sharing #feedback on threads that mentioned they had a lite account via Twitter for 123 days and still didn't have their private keys. Now, if the condition to get the private keys is to reach a certain amount of LEO/HBD/HP rewards on the lite account, that may not be the best user experience for the average user user onboarded with a lite account, if they need access to the Active Key.
This account has almost 1 LEO and an insignificant amount of HP.
I don't know the level of activity they are doing on Leo, but if the threshold is 5 LEO (or maybe higher) as I heard, there are two options to reach the point to get the private keys:
- a lot more time
- a lot more activity
I heard Khal said they will open source the lite account system so that other apps can use it, in which case a lite account user won't need a private posting key to be able to use the various applications that will implement this system. They will need the Active Key, though. So, maybe a way to obtain it earlier would be useful.
Now regarding my experience testing the lite account system.
It is as fast as advertised, maybe faster. In a few seconds you have it, without private keys to download or password to set. For anyone who wants to log in using their X (Twitter) account, it's a very easy process.
The limitation is that you don't have your private keys, as described above. It may be very easy at first, but later when you start discovering how powerful they are, it is a limitation.
Right after creating the lite account I was redirected to a welcome page that also had a series of options from what I could see at a brief look.
Before I was able to take a screenshot though I was redirected to the main Threads page, which I hope is not the intended behavior.
Back button on the browser didn't work, I didn't remember the URL so I didn't see how to go back to that page. If it was some action I needed to do there - because it looked like that - I shouldn't be able to pass without clicking a button, or I should be able to return from a menu option.
One of the first pages a new user would go to when joining a new (social media) platform is the profile. Being on the blockchain, it takes time for the operation to broadcast. Maybe there should be a way to let new users know that when they first join (or take profile through Leocache too, if it doesn't use it). Even if I know how Hive works, I wasn't clear after clicking to update my profile if that operation was broadcasted or not. The button looked like it was disabled. There was no notification or I missed it. I ended up pushing twice and only later on I discovered using the block explorer that the operations were broadcasted. So, maybe this part needs a little love... And many others, I'm sure... So, no pressure, lol!
That's about all I went through. I didn't thread anything, but I'm sure it works since this was probably the most tested feature.