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Yes, you can "login" as in "confirm this is the HN user they say they are", but not "Login as the HN user" as there is no actual connection to HN besides a toke
by capableweb 5y ago
Yes, you can "login" as in "confirm this is the HN user they say they are", but not "Login as the HN user" as there is no actual connection to HN besides a token in the profile.
When someone implements "Login with Google", you get some sort of access to the Google account, the minimum being the email. But this service gives you nothing more than the public view of a HN profile. If someone told me I could "Login with HN", I'd expect things like the ability to post comments/submissions via that account when authenticated, but that's not what's happening here.
- hombre_fatal 5y agoWell, when I log in with Github/Google/Twitter, I don't necessarily need to confer any account access to the website and I almost never do, so I'm not sure that's the defining factor of 3rd party login. At that point, 3rd party login really is just "we'll contact their servers to authenticate you and then give you a session." One example would be StackOverflow which lets you log in with Google/Github/Facebook but doesn't ask for any permissions on those websites.