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Ask HN: Facebook Connect & Google Friend Connect as only way to register & login
What's your opinion of using just FB Connect and Google Friend Connect as the only way to register or login to a site?<p>I know it depends on the target audience but would it be enough to cover most potential users?<p>With this, there is no need to deal with email validation and password thus making registration and login very easy.
- pedalpete 17y agoI think it depends on what you are doing. If your site is something socially connected, where people are likely to want to share their activities with friends, then I think it makes sense. If it is more of a stand-alone thing, I think it is disliked. If you are doing anything in the enterprise realm, I would strongly suggest staying away from FB. Is the login functionality central to your idea? Or can people use your site without the login? At the same time, I think it gets confusing to have too many options for login as well. I sometimes go to a site and try to remember if I created my own login, used FB Connect, or OpenID or what.
- frossie 17y agoVisualise a person who is neither on Facebook or Friend Connect. (Hint: there are quite a few of those). If you are happy for that person not to use your site, then by all means do what you plan.
- dpnewman 17y agohave u checked out rpxnow.com or maybe clickpass as additional options for offering multiple logins? provides pretty close to universal coverage login-wise, easy to implement.