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Why, exactly? I'm about 100x more likely to sign up for your site if you let me press a button and log in with my Google account. It's also really easy to imple
by TillE 16y ago
Why, exactly? I'm about 100x more likely to sign up for your site if you let me press a button and log in with my Google account. It's also really easy to implement with Django middleware.
Google turns up a Quora thing which, frankly, is full of handwaving bullshit.
Are there actual technical reasons why OpenID is bad?
- aristidb 16y agoAs far as I understand it, OpenID is still used, for letting people login with Google or even Yahoo accounts, but no longer with full flexibility in OpenID providers.
- edanm 16y agoI wasn't talking about whether I thought it was good or bad, just that it seems to me like most people on HN usually look down on it. And the reasons are mostly ones of user-friendliness (not technical reasons). I've heard of plenty of people who still never signed up for StackOverflow because it requires OpenID.