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“If the earliest users you have don't like you enough to give you their social login details ” Perhaps I’m an anomaly, but if there is no regular email sign-up
by wepple 9y ago
“If the earliest users you have don't like you enough to give you their social login details ”
Perhaps I’m an anomaly, but if there is no regular email sign-up, I’m not using your product, period.
There’s enough information floating around about me in databases all over the world, I don’t need them to be further connected and linked.
To see the situation with FB/CA and then demand your users use their login is insulting to me.
- caseysoftware 9y agoI agree with this because the scopes that the various apps "require" are usually way beyond what is actually necessary. At best, it's ugly information leakage. At worst, you spam my friends & colleagues to visit my farm. * There's another aspect where if Google, Facebook, etc, etc shut down or freeze your account, you will lose access to the system.
- cproctor 9y agoSame here. The recent examples of people finding it difficult to delete Facebook because of social logins to accounts on other sites reinforces how social logins lock you into a service.
- arsalanb 9y agoI built the log-in before the FB/CA situation and am yet to understand how it may change things. However, I personally think people will move on from this like nothing ever happened (which is sad)
- Symbiote 9y ago> I personally think people will move on from this like nothing ever happened (which is sad) Does that include you? You could add the usual email login, or go further and prevent new Facebook logins, or remove it completely.
- stordoff 9y agoIf you think it's sad, wouldn't you better off trying to change things? It's becomes more tempting to just move on if you have more services reliant on/tied to those accounts.
- senorjazz 9y agosame. I lost my gmail account due to travelling around and my security question was nonsense with a nonsense answer as I knew I would never forget my password. Eventually I got back into the account after a few months, since then I never rely on a google account for anything. Similarly, I don't use facebook. As for my data: 100% email login (I don't allow social logins)
- packet_nerd 9y agoSame here. If Google or FB are the only ways to sign up I'll pass. It bothers me (in a philosophical way) that everything is being tied back to the 2 or 3 biggest walled garden providers, further centralizing control. I wish there was like an open standard that apps could implement, and the users could choose to log in with any provider that implemented the standard (maybe this exists already?). I'd go for that.