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Re:Stack Overflow: Support for OpenID Ends on July 1, 2018 by auxbuss on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @03:22PM (#16539476)
You seem to misunderstand technical debt [0]. There is no technical debt here. There is a maintenance overhead – as there is with every line of code – which SO no longer wish to support.

I do agree that we are going in the wrong direction, and that we should be building open, federated, distributed protocols/standards. However, OpenID is not a good example of such given its dependencies.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_debt

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Re:Stack Overflow: Support for OpenID Ends on July 1, 2018 by Bromskloss on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @10:10PM (#16541990)
> OpenID is not a good example of such given its dependencies.

What is meant by "dependencies" here?

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