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We did that for an app, and let people pick from Google, Twitter, or Yahoo. They'd sometimes forget which one they'd chosen (like after being away from a bit or
by pamelafox 15y ago
We did that for an app, and let people pick from Google, Twitter, or Yahoo. They'd sometimes forget which one they'd chosen (like after being away from a bit or clearing the cache), and then login with a different one and get confused as to why their data was missing. Do you encounter that at all with your users?
- bane 15y agoThat's definitely something giving us some heartburn thinking about. We're going to try and avoid it unless we get lots of customer contacts (and our development schedule is empty), since we're probably going to have to come up with a solution that links accounts at some point. But, at the moment since we support only two providers, and those providers tend to be pretty divisive with little overlap, we haven't noticed any real problems yet.
- jtheory 15y agoThat's what kills me about these flexible sign-ins -- I was locked out of stack overflow for months because I have accounts on all of these providers, sometimes more than one, and I had no clue what I'd used initially. No idea what the solution to this problem is, but I suspect it isn't going away.
- tripzilch 15y agoI have an idea, but I'm not sure if it would be a security risk. Let the user pick a username to go with the ID provider. When you fill in the username, it'll look up (AJAX) which provider was used and offer/highlight that one? The question is, is it a security risk if anyone can type in any username to find out which ID provider it is used with?