He's not talking about requiring accounts for all users, only visitors. You can browse HN without limit without an account. Also, it is trivially easy to make HN accounts. My guess is that the OP approves of HN.
These are just usability guidelines, almost all of which are dealbreakers for me when I visit sites.
For example, when I use my password manager to generate a 64 char password for a new account somewhere, and get an error message saying "Please limit your password to 3 to 20 chars using only letters and numbers," I just have to laugh to myself.
I mean, think about what this tells you about the creators of that site.
These are just usability guidelines, almost all of which are dealbreakers for me when I visit sites.
For example, when I use my password manager to generate a 64 char password for a new account somewhere, and get an error message saying "Please limit your password to 3 to 20 chars using only letters and numbers," I just have to laugh to myself.
I mean, think about what this tells you about the creators of that site.