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This is why I like federated login with the options of Google and Facebook. Why go through the hassle of creating a new password and sending a verification emai
by MiddleEndian 12y ago
This is why I like federated login with the options of Google and Facebook. Why go through the hassle of creating a new password and sending a verification email, when the user can just click a couple buttons to sign in with a service indefinitely? The username can be chosen afterwards and never has to be re-typed.
- smt88 12y agoMany people are paranoid about connecting Google/Facebook to anything. You will lose users if you don't give them a plain username/password option.
- MiddleEndian 12y agoI know, but it's so much easier. It's not like I can't look up someones email account manually without federated login, plus then I no longer have to store passwords. Of course, aside from my own projects, the only service I've seen that exclusively does this is Fancy Hands.
- smt88 12y agoI agree that it's easier, and if you're only getting a unique identifier from that service (as well as a token), then it's really not unsafe. For the purposes of login, data sharing is unidirectional. The problem is that Facebook totally mismanaged their apps when they first launched, and a lot of people were permanently turned off to "Connect to Facebook" functionality by random apps posting under the user's name. My account was recently abused by Glassdoor, which fervently promised not to post anything to my friends, and then immediately did so.
- mikeash 12y agoMy trouble with these things is that they invariably support multiple services, all of which I have accounts with, and I can never remember which one I'm using for any particular service.
- MiddleEndian 12y agoI just default to Google since it's what I'd use for email verification if I were using email.