Re:Hackful - A Hacker News for Europe
by babarock on Friday February 03, 2012 @10:48AM
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Passwords... Again. I can't believe I still have to create an account. Even for a website like HN that I'm completely addicted to, I would've never signed up if it weren't for OpenID. You want me to use your service? Make it easy for me to authenticate, I don't need yet another password...
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This isn't phrased very pleasantly, but it is a valid point. It would be very cool to have OpenID support like on HN.
I'm working on it. Coming soon. (I developed Hackful)
Re:Hackful - A Hacker News for Europe
by petercooper on Friday February 03, 2012 @01:57PM
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Twitter, Facebook, or even GitHub authentication is certainly de rigeur, but I must admit I thought OpenID had fallen off the radar and I haven't seen any interesting new projects supporting it lately. Even 37signals gave up on it mostly due to lack of use: http://productblog.37signals.com/products/2011/01/well-be-re...
Nothing against OpenID, per se, but it doesn't feel like it has taken off. Or maybe the big sites that are using it are just getting on with it AOK :-)
I only recently made the effort to switch to a tool like 1Password and it's great for creating on-the-fly secure passwords that I don't need to bother remembering.
I believe there's quite a few products that do a similar job.