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Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetOk, so I’ve been playing with openid for the last day, because paul really did inspire me to dig more deeply. I did the redirect deal so I could use my site url for login and I also checked out PhpMyID which allows you to set up your own openID server. While both are technically interesting, I’ve got to say- for the average user, and possibly even some more advanced users, OpenID is still pretty much useless.
It’s one more thing to set up (and the myopenid setup isn’t short). It’s one more thing to go down (yes, clickpass even had downtime yesterday). And it’s just not *enough* benefit for a “normal” user to go out and do it. Not to mention, UX at clickpass is good, but at other sites it just plain SUCKS! I opened a buxfer account using openid yesterday- even though my account was created, I got an error message (ugh). Hit refresh and the message is gone, my new account page shows up (so it wasn’t an error?), but my username (which displays on every page) is the hideous “openid_123975″ *yuck*
I mean, I REALLY like the idea of having some site (facebook/flickr/google/etc) automatically giving you an openid you can use anywhere. I think users will certainly start to do that as more sites incorporate the “log in via facebook/flickr/google” option like Buxfer has. I just don’t see anyone other than us dorks and nerds (and geeks) going out and actively getting an openID and jumping through these hoops.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetHi Paul- I’ll echo most of the posts here by saying, yes- I’ve tried OpenID before. I also went ahead and hit clickpass today… and yes, it looks nice. I’m not sure about how much actual use I’ll get from it though.
Could you elaborate on your code snippet ‘link rel=’ etc? I’m STILL not sure how the whole OpenID thing works when you want to use your own domain… and that’s something that is certainly lacking (feature- and documentation- wise) on the clickpass site- I just didn’t get enough from the FAQ question about delegation.
Also- a list of all sites that clickpass supports would be killer (or a bigger list- or is “new sites” all of them? hmm)- I’m sure there are lots of sites I’d love to try out that I just don’t know about.
great site, btw!