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Re:Techniques To Simplify Sign-Ups and Log-Ins by edanm on Thursday May 05, 2011 @10:48AM (#2517554)
Unfortunately, the prevailing sentiment right now seems to be that OpenID is not a good idea.
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Re:Techniques To Simplify Sign-Ups and Log-Ins by TillE on Thursday May 05, 2011 @11:36AM (#2517746)
Why, exactly? I'm about 100x more likely to sign up for your site if you let me press a button and log in with my Google account. It's also really easy to implement with Django middleware.

Google turns up a Quora thing which, frankly, is full of handwaving bullshit.

Are there actual technical reasons why OpenID is bad?

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Re:Techniques To Simplify Sign-Ups and Log-Ins by edanm on Friday May 06, 2011 @04:22AM (#2520350)
I wasn't talking about whether I thought it was good or bad, just that it seems to me like most people on HN usually look down on it.

And the reasons are mostly ones of user-friendliness (not technical reasons). I've heard of plenty of people who still never signed up for StackOverflow because it requires OpenID.

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Re:Techniques To Simplify Sign-Ups and Log-Ins by aristidb on Thursday May 05, 2011 @11:49AM (#2517797)
As far as I understand it, OpenID is still used, for letting people login with Google or even Yahoo accounts, but no longer with full flexibility in OpenID providers.
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