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Re:Ask HN: Conversion rate increase with a Facebook sign-on? by tomjen3 on Tuesday August 10, 2010 @09:07PM (#1593468)
It doesn't make sense: everybody who have a Facebook login also have a gmail, so why not not just allow people to login with that?
Re:Ask HN: Conversion rate increase with a Facebook sign-on? by gxti on Tuesday August 10, 2010 @09:17PM (#1593481)
Stackoverflow does exactly that. They have big buttons for all the major identity providers, including Google, Facebook, etc. and a text field at the bottom for manual openid login.
Re:Ask HN: Conversion rate increase with a Facebook sign-on? by sabj on Tuesday August 10, 2010 @09:53PM (#1593557)
Personally I feel a lot better about Twitter + OAuth than FB, but that's just me.

As for why not use OpenID? Personally, I don't want to tie my Gmail account to a lot of things -- then people have my email! I don't necessarily want to tie my Facebook to them, either, but in the same breath some forms of OpenID can end up sharing more, depending...

This is why I get cranky when people implement Disqus, too -- old comments I made that were supposed to be anonymous but which had my email for the author, etc, are now pulled in and linked to a general identity months or years later. :(

Re:Ask HN: Conversion rate increase with a Facebook sign-on? by theBobMcCormick on Tuesday August 10, 2010 @10:08PM (#1593578)
Why would you feel better about Twitter + OAuth than FaceBook + OAuth (which is what the sign on component of FB Connect is)? From a technology perspective, it's the same protocol. Neither company has a good security track record.

(not criticizing BTW, just curious)

Re:Ask HN: Conversion rate increase with a Facebook sign-on? by desigooner on Wednesday August 11, 2010 @07:38AM (#1594397)
the twitter account could be a throwaway account and generally lesser risk of anybody getting too many personal details.. facebook, not so much ..
Re:Ask HN: Conversion rate increase with a Facebook sign-on? by benologist on Tuesday August 10, 2010 @10:48PM (#1593652)
Because all the major sites/companies were too busy fighting to be the provider everyone uses and never got around to actually accepting anyone else.
Re:Ask HN: Conversion rate increase with a Facebook sign-on? by tomjen3 on Wednesday August 11, 2010 @07:34AM (#1594393)
But that isn't really an issue if you want to accept open ids on your site - it is actually a good thing, because the more providers there are the easier it is to find on that has your customers.