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I apologize for the moderate threadjack here, but I have a lot of respect for you guys and would like your opinion on something... How do you feel about these

by blhack 17y ago

I apologize for the moderate threadjack here, but I have a lot of respect for you guys and would like your opinion on something... How do you feel about these sorts of things (openid, I mean). I remember microsoft trying it long long ago and it being a colossal failure. A good friend of mine and I have a little blog/news aggregator/comment pool thing that we're both having a bit of fun with and he keeps suggesting that we use google connect. To me, these sorts of things take away from the community feel of places like HN, or reddit, or wherever else... What do you guys think? Was this a good move for facebook?

ryanvm 17y ago
What Microsoft offered was the Microsoft Passport->.NET Passport->Windows Live ID. The difference being that under their plan, Microsoft was the only provider. Big difference. OpenID allows people to use whichever services they want as their OpenID providers.
Tichy 17y ago
I think there is a fundamental problem with OpenID, which I describe here: http://blog.blinker.net/2009/01/09/a-big-problem-with-openid-phishing/ http://blog.blinker.net/2009/01/09/a-big-problem-with-openid... Also, most of the sites that I used it for recently still required me to enter an extra password. So what's the point? If that keeps going on, I will just give up using OpenID.