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You can tie multiple OpenIDs to your account. Try it on OurDoings if you want to see how it works. There's a "forget I exist" feature you can use when you're
by brlewis 18y ago
You can tie multiple OpenIDs to your account. Try it on OurDoings if you want to see how it works. There's a "forget I exist" feature you can use when you're done.
- unalone 18y agoThat's for one site, though, if I'm not mistaken. Good luck on getting the rest of the web to allow for that feature.
- brlewis 18y agomechanical_fish described a site owner's problem. I described a site owner's solution. How much luck does it take for site owners to act in their own interest?
- unalone 18y agoBecause not all site owners care enough about OpenID to spend time finding any workarounds for implementation. Especially not when easier channels already exist.
- mechanical_fish 18y agoI didn't bother to mention the even bigger, better-known problem with OpenID: Users don't understand it. Only geeks understand it, and a subset of geeks at that. Any plan which involves asking users to build a more complicated mental model of OpenID -- like asking them to understand the notion of multiple IDs aliased to the same account -- is just going to make that fundamental problem worse.