OpenID isn't dead but here's the pre-mortem. 1. The NASCAR problem. Listing out every popular service does not guide the user through the login process. 2. Th

OpenID isn't dead but here's the pre-mortem. 1. The NASCAR problem. Listing out every popular service does not guide the user through the login process. 2. The lost NASCAR problem. I know I signed up with one of these services but which one for this site? 3. The abandoned service problem. How do I access this site after my identity provider closed shop or the service I was using decided to stop supporting OpenID? 4. The redirection dialog problem. What do all these dialogs mean and what access am I granting to who? 5. The phishing problem. The default experience lends itself to teaching people to type secrets into popups / redirects coming from other sites. 6. Nobody wants to be a URL; email is king here. The support for email came late in the game. 7. The double registration problem. I signed up with OpenID which gives the site my basic profile but I still have to "finish" registration by giving more information. There are many other issues but those are the big ones to me.