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Re:Okta to Acquire Auth0 for $6.5B by mooreds on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @09:30PM (#26337894)
I am not sure about that. Thee same strengths that FAANG brings means that they don't have the intense focus that companies like Auth0/Okta/others bring. See how many people are complaining about Firebase and Cognito in other threads.

Having the auth system be your primary revenue stream means you pay very close attention to it, whether that be marketing or engineering. If it is just a freebie/side offereing you add to make your core better, well, it might lack resources or focus.

Disclosure, I work for FusionAuth.

Re:Okta to Acquire Auth0 for $6.5B by abraae on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @10:47PM (#26338380)
Fair comment.

However I don't see many web sites with a "sign in with FusionAuth" button, and I don't see any way to get such a button for my site.

Not without paying anyway - which is really my whole point. Free will always win.

Re:Okta to Acquire Auth0 for $6.5B by chrisbuc on Thursday March 04, 2021 @03:17AM (#26339987)
I'm just starting a new side project, and have looked at Keycloak and fusionauth. Fusionauth has a free offering (ie, self hosted), and takes a minute to install and run. I like it a lot and am going forward with it for testing.

You won't see a login with fusionauth button, you'll just see a login button on my website, which might give you Google, github,LinkedIn logins etc depending on what I choose.

Re:Okta to Acquire Auth0 for $6.5B by advaitruia on Thursday March 04, 2021 @05:37AM (#26340827)
Depending on what set of features you need, it may make sense to also have a look at SuperTokens.io. Probably not as mature but we're open source and stronger with customization of the end user experience (frontend stuff), support and ease of implemenetation.
Re:Okta to Acquire Auth0 for $6.5B by mooreds on Thursday March 04, 2021 @05:39PM (#26349488)
> stronger with customization of the end user experience

I might say "a different approach" :) I appreciate SuperToken's SPA first stance, but FusionAuth is pretty darn customizable too: https://fusionauth.io/docs/v1/tech/themes/

Re:Okta to Acquire Auth0 for $6.5B by brokenwren on Saturday March 06, 2021 @11:10AM (#26368336)
FusionAuth also has advanced registration forms and we are working on a lot of really awesome improvements around sign-in and sign-up workflows.

Stay tuned for some major updates in the coming weeks! ;)

Re:Okta to Acquire Auth0 for $6.5B by mooreds on Thursday March 04, 2021 @12:54PM (#26345614)
Sure, just like you won't see sites with a 'sign in with Auth0' button. Both are service providers.

As a sibling comment mentioned, FusionAuth has a free offering if you self host. https://fusionauth.io/download/

Re:Okta to Acquire Auth0 for $6.5B by arcturus17 on Thursday March 04, 2021 @02:13AM (#26339584)
I’ve complained extensively about Firebase in other posts, but not about their Auth module which I think is by far the best offering in the portfolio of services. I’ve integrated it for a large enterprise customer through SAML and have had an extremely positive experience where everything just worked with about a morning of work, and I’ve not had to maintain it ever since. The client SDK is great in how it syncs auth states with the server.

My main complaint is that there is no ‘onLogin’ serverless functions hook, and how keeping additional user context through custom claims is not that straightforward.

And of course I’m pretty apprehensive about Google having the data, so best of luck to you all building OSS solutions.