Re:A digital skeleton key to access any website
by rabbyte on Saturday May 09, 2015 @11:02PM
(#9518613)
OpenID isn't dead but here's the pre-mortem.
1. The NASCAR problem. Listing out every popular service does not guide the user through the login process.
2. The lost NASCAR problem. I know I signed up with one of these services but which one for this site?
3. The abandoned service problem. How do I access this site after my identity provider closed shop or the service I was using decided to stop supporting OpenID?
4. The redirection dialog problem. What do all these dialogs mean and what access am I granting to who?
5. The phishing problem. The default experience lends itself to
teaching people to type secrets into popups / redirects coming from other sites.
6. Nobody wants to be a URL; email is king here. The support for email came late in the game.
7. The double registration problem. I signed up with OpenID which gives the site my basic profile but I still have to "finish" registration by giving more information.
There are many other issues but those are the big ones to me.
1. The NASCAR problem. Listing out every popular service does not guide the user through the login process.
2. The lost NASCAR problem. I know I signed up with one of these services but which one for this site?
3. The abandoned service problem. How do I access this site after my identity provider closed shop or the service I was using decided to stop supporting OpenID?
4. The redirection dialog problem. What do all these dialogs mean and what access am I granting to who?
5. The phishing problem. The default experience lends itself to teaching people to type secrets into popups / redirects coming from other sites.
6. Nobody wants to be a URL; email is king here. The support for email came late in the game.
7. The double registration problem. I signed up with OpenID which gives the site my basic profile but I still have to "finish" registration by giving more information.
There are many other issues but those are the big ones to me.