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It used some another (failed?) provider before (which connected accounts to Gmail, Yahoo, etc.)

by dchest 13y ago

callahad 13y ago
HN was using Clickpass (YC Summer 07), which was acquired and shuttered by Janrain early last year. Amusingly enough, Stack Overflow still has a (broken) Clickpass button on its login page. If I recall correctly, Clickpass was a centralized OpenID proxy, whereas Persona is trying to bootstrap a fully decentralized protocol. We don't want to even be able to track you. :) [Edit: Corrected YC cohort. Thanks wamatt!]
- wamatt 13y ago
  I believe Clickpass was YC '07. Falling short of a Series A raise, Yola/Synthasite acquired them in 2008 [1] Then a few years later (2012), Yola sold the IP and users to Janrain [2] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=402973 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=402973 [2] http://janrain.com/clickpass-acquired-by-janrain/ http://janrain.com/clickpass-acquired-by-janrain/ EDIT: my pleasure callahad :)
- baha_man 13y ago
  "Amusingly enough, Stack Overflow still has a (broken) Clickpass button on its login page." Where? I can't see it.
  - callahad 13y ago
    The button was removed a few hours ago: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/192501/remove-obsolete-clickpass-login-option http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/192501/remove-obsole...
kmfrk 13y ago
It had (has?) OpenID support.
- Groxx 13y ago
  had. was dropped a while back :'(
  - shardling 13y ago
    Hilariously it was dropped with no real notification, and one day my account just stopped working. I had to make a new one, because there was no way to access my previous account.
    - icebraining 13y ago
      https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3618082 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3618082
      - shardling 13y ago
        No where in that headline does it mention OpenID -- and I have no idea what ClickPass is. Nor was it a persistent announcement; it was just a regular story. Perhaps I didn't even check HN that particular day? There are many ways they could have notified OpenID users that would have worked -- this wasn't really one of them!
    - Groxx 13y ago
      Yeah, I very luckily had my account still logged in on one browser, and was able to save it :|

It used some another (failed?) provider before (which connected accounts to Gmail, Yahoo, etc.)

by dchest 13y ago

It used some another (failed?) provider before (which connected accounts to Gmail, Yahoo, etc.)

HN was using Clickpass (YC Summer 07), which was acquired and shuttered by Janrain early last year. Amusingly enough, Stack Overflow still has a (broken) Clickpass button on its login page. If I recall correctly, Clickpass was a centralized OpenID proxy, whereas Persona is trying to bootstrap a fully decentralized protocol. We don't want to even be able to track you. :) [Edit: Corrected YC cohort. Thanks wamatt!]

wamatt 13y ago
I believe Clickpass was YC '07. Falling short of a Series A raise, Yola/Synthasite acquired them in 2008 [1] Then a few years later (2012), Yola sold the IP and users to Janrain [2] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=402973 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=402973 [2] http://janrain.com/clickpass-acquired-by-janrain/ http://janrain.com/clickpass-acquired-by-janrain/ EDIT: my pleasure callahad :)
baha_man 13y ago
"Amusingly enough, Stack Overflow still has a (broken) Clickpass button on its login page." Where? I can't see it.
- callahad 13y ago
  The button was removed a few hours ago: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/192501/remove-obsolete-clickpass-login-option http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/192501/remove-obsole...

kmfrk 13y ago

It had (has?) OpenID support.

Groxx 13y ago
had. was dropped a while back :'(
- shardling 13y ago
  Hilariously it was dropped with no real notification, and one day my account just stopped working. I had to make a new one, because there was no way to access my previous account.
  - icebraining 13y ago
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3618082 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3618082
    - shardling 13y ago
      No where in that headline does it mention OpenID -- and I have no idea what ClickPass is. Nor was it a persistent announcement; it was just a regular story. Perhaps I didn't even check HN that particular day? There are many ways they could have notified OpenID users that would have worked -- this wasn't really one of them!
  - Groxx 13y ago
    Yeah, I very luckily had my account still logged in on one browser, and was able to save it :|