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> Of our 9,813,747 accounts around one-tenth of a percent are actively using OpenID I created an account on SO using an OpenID provider in 2009. In 2014, the p
by bambax 9y ago
> Of our 9,813,747 accounts around one-tenth of a percent are actively using OpenID
I created an account on SO using an OpenID provider in 2009. In 2014, the provider disappeared and with it, the ability to log into the account. I was never warned about this and have never been able to access that account again.
Since then I only access SO via web searches (didn't create another account). I wonder how many people are in the same situation.
- igor47 9y agothis happened to me too, and I wrote up how I recovered from it, here: https://igor.moomers.org/recovering-openid https://igor.moomers.org/recovering-openid it's fairly painless
- JepZ 9y agoNice write up!
- teh_klev 9y agoWhen I was a mod on the site, I know that you could email the dev team or ping a mod to ping the dev team to fix this. They were usually pretty quick about it.
- mooreds 9y agoYes, they combined a couple of accounts (that all belonged to me) with an email or two (and some validation, IIRC).
- JepZ 9y agoI created my SO account via OpenID too, but somehow I am still able to login via email. I don't know, maybe I did something to enable that, but in general there should be no problem using an old OpenID account with SO.
- fabian2k 9y agoYou're probably talking about myOpenID, that shutdown affected quite a few people as far as I remember. You can get back access to the account by contacting SE support in many cases (https://stackoverflow.com/contact https://stackoverflow.com/contact).
- tclancy 9y agoThat was me as well. Thankfully I also had tied a Google account to StackOverflow so it wasn't a big deal, but I replaced MyOpenID with django-openid on my personal site. That package later turned out to be dead when I updated to a modern version of Django so I forked it to make it work. Which is a lot of work to do nothing at all . . . I just really like the idea of OpenID.
- WorldMaker 9y agoI've always delegated my address to a provider of choice, so as providers fall I've been able to adjust my delegation. That ability to delegate any domain you control (or even different pages on the same domain) to any provider you wanted to use was one of the best features of OpenID, and something that is lost in most of the "OpenID" Connect systems like FB/Google login where provider is locked as soon as you click the button.
- ams6110 9y agoOpenID Connect works for users though. "Sign in with Google" is something people understand. The original OpenID, where my identity was a URL that wasn't a website, and wasn't my email address, was never easy to explain.
- WorldMaker 9y agoOpenID was built for the world where everyone had a blog, so everyone had at least one URL that was a website that they controlled that was also their OpenID. It was easy to explain in that world. That world barely existed, and now is long gone, for better/worse.
- virgil_disgr4ce 9y agoWow, I had almost forgotten about that. Yeah, I never really understood it...
- tomc1985 9y agoI dodged this only because my openID provider was verisign, then symantec, and I managed to see the warnings that they were sunsetting OpenID service
- nine_k 9y agoHaving considered this from the start, I linked 3 different auth providers to my Stackoverflow account, and it did help me more than once. Consider doing this if you only depend on a single Google / FB / other account.