Re: Allow OpenID

Posted by Graham Perrin on Oct 28, 2012; 4:42pm
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Allow-OpenID-tp5735106p7581735.html

Revisiting this … thanks for the links. Interesting reading.

Re: use of OpenID (and other authentication routines) at Stack Overflow and elsewhere in Stack Exchange, it's a really nice solution, neatly implemented in that network. For each account at http://stackexchange.com/users/17156/graham-perrin?tab=accounts OpenID was my starting point. Key point:

• without that simplicity, I would not have joined some of the stacks.

… almost all the responses here really *are* using third party login systems -- twitter, facebook, openid, etc. I guess what that says is that for certain lightweight-ish things, this third-party login model DOES work.

– http://blog.wekeroad.com/thoughts/open-id-is-a-party-that-happened#comment-98750592

For what it's worth, whilst reading up in the phpBB area I found Innovative Techniques To Simplify Sign-Ups and Log-Ins | Smashing UX Design (2011-05-05), referred from [RFC] Registration & Login Overhaul - Development Discussion Board (2011-05-17). Also [RFC] Usability: Login on registration (2011-10-10) and [RFC] Auth Plugin Refactoring & User Integration (2012-04-24).

Anyway, back to Nabble. If not OpenID, I'd still love to see allowance of other commonly-used third-party authenticators.

Thoughts?

Thanks