Learning from our Mistakes: The Failure of OpenID, AtomPub and XML on the Web

Re:Learning from our Mistakes: The Failure of OpenID, AtomPu... by olalonde on Sunday January 30, 2011 @03:34PM (#2159080)

What's up with all the OpenID hating?

I personally find OpenID totally awesome (not that it couldn't be better) when I want to try a new service and don't want to go through a registration form or hand out my password to an untrusted website or when I'm too lazy to type my username/password.

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Re:Learning from our Mistakes: The Failure of OpenID, AtomPu... by tzs on Sunday January 30, 2011 @04:21PM (#2159220)

I think OpenID ran into serious trouble when a bunch of big sites announced support for it, but really only supported it as providers, not consumers.

At one point, I had something like 3 or 4 different sites I was registered on that would serve as OpenID providers for me, but not a single place that I wanted to login to accepted OpenID. At that point, I pretty much forgot about OpenID. I bet a lot of would-be early adopters did the same.

By the time I actually started occasionally encountering sites that accepted OpenID and that I wanted to use, I had 1Password and didn't care about OpenID anymore.

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