Can I Only Support Open Id? 3
I am putting the finishing touches on a web site to provide some tools and material for table top role playing games.
I am leaning towards only supporting login through OpenID.
Why, you ask? What about users that don’t have OpenIds?
That’s a good question. DHH spelled out the advantages of OpenId here. This is why I’m supporting. I could choose to offer traditional registration with a userid and password, managed by me. From my perspective, that’s more code that I have to maintain and it undoes many of the advantages I was supposed to gain by offering OpenId.
From a users perspective, if they don’t have an OpenId they will have to fill out a registration form on my site. There isn’t much additional effort to have them to get an OpenId which they can use on many sites.
In fact I can use myopenid’s affliate site to make it even easier for them.
By only supporting OpenId everybody wins. I don’t have to manage passwords and logins and related code and users, if they have to signup, get a shiney new OpenID.
Comment below and let me know where I’m wrong?
Steve
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Have you gone the OpenID-only route yet? How well has it worked for you?
I plan to announce the opening of my site late this week. I’ll post back after I’ve been up for a while with some information on how it went.
Any status?