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Yep, this is my problem, not that I actually forgot all the logins to my individual OpenID provider accounts and variants (but when that happens once in a while
by silencio 16y ago
Yep, this is my problem, not that I actually forgot all the logins to my individual OpenID provider accounts and variants (but when that happens once in a while, that's also a clusterfuck...). I have one for my domain with myOpenID, I have at least one each through google, yahoo, facebook, twitter, livejournal... every site offering those logins uses any combination of all of those, and I can't remember which OpenID I need to use with the site.
This is why I can't even remember the last time I posted on Stack Overflow. I once had to email Jeff Atwood because I had managed to create two accounts with two different identities (this was long ago, before you were able to associate multiple OpenID identities to a single user), and to this day I still don't remember which ones work with the user that has the highest reputation. So I don't even bother logging in most of the time, and choose a random login every time I do.
OpenID's biggest end-user benefit was supposed to cut down on the number of disparate accounts people tend to have across multiple websites, and it became moot when everyone and their mother decided that they needed to be the be-all end-all of OpenID providers by turning your login details and identity with that website into an OpenID or OpenID type identity.