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Started with OpenID supported accounts only as a quickstart on my site. Removed it after a while and replaced it by classic email/password based accounts. Obser

by rauar 15y ago

Started with OpenID supported accounts only as a quickstart on my site. Removed it after a while and replaced it by classic email/password based accounts. Observed issues with broken authentication and people were a bit confused with already being logged in because they were already in their gmail... Conversions declined however due to the required sign up then which was not necessary before.

sixtofour 15y ago
So even with the (supposed) confusion over what OpenID is, you still had a conversion advantage. Interesting. Interesting still that with that advantage you chose to go back to tradition, and shed the support issues.
- rauar 15y ago
  The feedback regarding came from known users with technical background. I chose clarity and reliability (could not login myself once with my own OpenID) for my long-term users over higher sign-up conversions (OpenID was 2 clicks for login and granting access, now 2 clicks with 4 validated input fields which increases the barrier).