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i was gonna register, until I saw that you only take openid.
by vaksel 17y ago
i was gonna register, until I saw that you only take openid.
- dshah 17y agoI agree, that's a bit irritating. I'll reach out to Joel/Jeff and see if they're open to adding other options. But, you can't argue with the success of Stack Overflow (despite being only OpenID, it's done pretty well)
- vaksel 17y agostackoverflow doesn't just use openid, they give you like a hundred different options. It's pretty surprising that they don't have it for stackexchange.
- dshah 17y agoI just rechecked. StackOverflow does support a bunch of different providers -- but they're all based on OpenID. No support for Facebook or a "standard" username/email/password model. I think for the SO userbase, it's likely fine. But, for other more mainstream audiences, OpenID is not ideal. Too much friction in the process.
- mhp 17y agoStackOverflow does just use openid. It just happens that yahoo, google, facebook, etc are all openid providers. But SO only accepts openid as a login method. (Hence SE is the same currently, but that will change.)
- sefner 17y agoFor what it's worth someone asked Joel this after the first DevDays in Boston and he said adding a normal username/password login was at the top of their list.
- kylec 17y agoI used to be very against StackOverflow's stance of only using OpenID as the login system. However, with the sheer multiplication of the StackExchange-powered sites, the initial investment in setting up an OpenID has, in my opinion, paid off.
- justlearning 17y agoI am genuinely curious - why are you (and some others) against openid? (apart from the trust factor)
- zaidf 17y agoIt is a pain to use and understand, even for a techie like me. When it works, it's magic. And often I don't mind--especially since facebook's implementation of it. When it doesn't work, I've no freakin idea what is going on. And it really makes me miss the plain ol login/pass.
- justlearning 17y agoi can relate to that - with logging with openid here in HN. I had to post an "ask hn" to catch attention of pg - who resolved it. I couldn't make head or tail of what was happening and strongly assumed that clickpass was at fault. Then pg said he had to fix some code.
- mcav 17y agoOh. I, too, had an issue logging in with OpenID here. I finally gave in and reset my password so I could log in with that.
- JimmyL 17y agoI have had no problems (or difficulties) with OpenID - set up an account on myopenid.com, pasted two lines into the source of the root page of my domain that delegates to myopenid, and then I just use that.
- kniwor 17y agoI haven't come across a scenario where openid did not work. Care to elaborate? I think of openid as the git of the login systems. Elegant in it's simplicity but comes with a minor learning curve and the benefits of climbing the learning curve far outweigh the cost of doing so. And very much like git, it takes 15 minutes to get over the learning curve if you are good with google and/or have some guidance.
- jerome_etienne 17y agothis leads to a "who do you like/dislike openid"... but i think it is irrelevant. it is more "why such application force you on this ?" this application is not about promoting openid, it is about ask/answering question on startup. So the identification and authentication should remain mainstream, not to uselessly disturb the user. openid is an option, username/password, google, facebook and co provides others
- chris123 17y agoI don't particularly like the OpenID either. It's crap security and crap usability, at least in all the implementations I've seen so far. I would love to see a great example of a great implementation. Anyone? :)