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Unfortunately, OpenId is too complicated for most folks. paste in your url? c'mon. Even Brad Fitzpatrick realizes this: http://code.google.com/p/webfinger/ h
by krosaen 16y ago
Unfortunately, OpenId is too complicated for most folks. paste in your url? c'mon. Even Brad Fitzpatrick realizes this:
http://code.google.com/p/webfinger/ http://code.google.com/p/webfinger/
"People have been trying to use URLs as identifiers for people (as OpenID does), as it has great readability/discoverability properties, but this effort has largely failed because of UI/UX design failings, user confusion about URLs, etc."
- StavrosK 16y agoYou don't have to, there are widgets you can use where you just select your provider and enter your username, and everything's done.
- krosaen 16y agogood point, looks like stack overflow does this pretty well. there's also https://www.idselector.com https://www.idselector.com and http://wiki.openid.net/Gallery http://wiki.openid.net/Gallery