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Ask HN: Did opeid run out of steam?
Did openid run out of steam?
If so:
1. what were the lessons learnt?
2. What were the successful features?
3. What should openid have been?
- bdfh42 15y agoWhat's wrong with OpenID? We just implemented it on our new site and it works just great. I suspect that many start=up sites just fail to notice it or feel they want more information about a user than they are guaranteed by the OpenID process. We request a new user's email address but can manage just fine without it - we also provide a user profile page where users can opt to add more details about themselves to "fill in the blanks".
- ittan 15y agoThere is nothing wrong with openID. just that it has not taken off on a large scale as one would want. I suspect OAUTH to have become more prevalent.
- bdfh42 15y agoI can see OAUTH working for apps/mashups - but not sure how that goes for humans.
- chc 15y agoIn answer to "What's wrong with OpenID," I will defer to HN's own patio11: http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=by%3Apatio11+openid http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=by%3Apatio1...
- pkamb 15y agoThe lesson learned is that even very technical folk do not understand "logging in with a URL".