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the problem with openid is that there are too many providers and too little consumers. I see it as a failed project which tried to solve an important problem. O
by skbohra 16y ago
the problem with openid is that there are too many providers and too little consumers. I see it as a failed project which tried to solve an important problem. OAuth Seems a better option which just works, I have implemented it in a couple of projects and it looks promising, 'sign in with twitter' is a good example of an intelligent OAuth use.
- thwarted 16y agothe problem with openid is that there are too many providers and too little consumers. I see it as a failed project which tried to solve an important problem. I think it's partially a chicken-and-egg problem, no one wanted to be consumer because none of their users knew if they had openid, and it's not worth it to be a provider because there was no place to use it. To solve this, it's easy to set up or become a provider. It's also that most sites are more walled gardens than they'll admit when it comes to user accounts, since openid, in theory (depending on the provider), makes it even easier than most signup/login forms to create an account or login, and no one wants to make it easy for their users to go to a competitor. And this doesn't even get into the user-facing UX issues that openid has.