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The sad thing is, if you implemented OpenID you can painlessly enable sign in to your site through Google, Yahoo, the StackExchange network and a myriad of inde
by jaredmcateer 14y ago
The sad thing is, if you implemented OpenID you can painlessly enable sign in to your site through Google, Yahoo, the StackExchange network and a myriad of independent openid providers, but no, we're going with Facebook guys.
- jinushaun 14y agoThe problem with OpenID is that nobody (read: regular people) knows how to use it. It never had the mainstream pick up of Facebook and Twitter logins.
- jaredmcateer 14y agoGoogle/Yahoo/StackExchange/Flikr sign in with OpenID works exactly the same way that Facebook login works (to the user.) Your site presents a button, the user clicks it, and if it's the first time they get a popup asking to grant access, then they're logged in. Those four domains are pretty far reaching in terms of casual and technical users but now you can also provide a third option for even more technical users to use a custom OpenID, for virtually no additional cost in development.