"Stateless authentication microservice" has only one possible meaning to me. Did you want to ask something more specific, or do you just not know what those (common) words mean?

The me it means... nothing specific.

It tells me that is has something to do with login, "without state" (whatever this means in this context) and that it is somehow not a "big service" but very "micro", so probably independent. Stateless and microservice can mean so many things.

Those words have one meaning each.

A microservice is a service that does only one thing, and does it simply.

Something stateless doesn't keep state - after an interaction with a client, nothing has changed in the service itself.

A stateless authentication microservice is something I would expect to run, listen on a port for some sort of authentication credentials, and return either some sort of authorizarion token or an authentication error.

I don't see where the confusion comes from.

Obviously it comes from you being so much smarter than me.

Would be great if you could create an issue and write some more details about your requirement.

Does "put information about the service on the front page" really require a ticket?

It doesn't.

Asking to do a pull request or create an issue is just a polite way of saying fuck off.

Nope, but a ticket helps them track it, helps make your request more durable, more likely to be developed into a higher resolution of detail, and ultimately more likely to be fulfilled.

Thanks, but I know what trouble tickets are.

A response to request for detail with a request for detail...

Perhaps you could describe what details you would like to see in the issue? :)

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In seriousness, noobish me would like to understand more what this is and when I should use it.

I actually didn't know that the repo also includes the website (in `/example/nextjs/pages/index.js`) that was linked here.

There you go: https://github.com/lipp/login-with/issues/25