Start ups, please don't force me to log in with Facebook

Re:Start ups, please don't force me to log in with Facebook by wvenable on Monday September 27, 2010 @03:27PM (#1732998)

I never bothered to sign up at stackoverflow because of OpenID. Not necessarily because I have some philosophical issue with it, but because I already have a system to maintain this stuff and OpenID is just another hoop to jump through. Adding an optional user/password signup is hardly difficult.

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Re:Start ups, please don't force me to log in with Facebook by jrockway on Monday September 27, 2010 @03:31PM (#1733009)

Honestly, I'd rather not give Jeff my password. So +1 on OpenID.

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Re:Start ups, please don't force me to log in with Facebook by wvenable on Monday September 27, 2010 @03:54PM (#1733091)

What's stopping you from setting your password to jeff_sucks? It's pretty memorable too.

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Re:Start ups, please don't force me to log in with Facebook by StavrosK on Monday September 27, 2010 @04:29PM (#1733260)

Nothing is stopping me from setting my password to something different for every site I don't want to set a good password for, I'd just very very much rather just enter a URL and have everything work. OpenID is the most useful thing online in ages.

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Re:Start ups, please don't force me to log in with Facebook by kylec on Monday September 27, 2010 @06:00PM (#1733649)

The difference with Stack Overflow is that you can, and may people do, use it without an OpenID. Just go ahead and post a question or answer, and you'll be assigned a cookie-based account. And if you put in an email address, you can download a new cookie for that account at any time.

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Re:Start ups, please don't force me to log in with Facebook by wvenable on Monday September 27, 2010 @06:07PM (#1733674)

You can't vote without a login.

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