On Fri, 2010-09-17 at 08:47 +0200, Michael Snoyman wrote: > Hi cafe, > > Let me preface this by stating that this is purposely a half-baked > idea, a straw man if you will. I'd like to hear what the community > thinks about this. > > I mentioned yesterday that I was planning on building haskellers.com. > The first technicality I considered was how login should work. There > are a few basic ideas: > > * Username/password on the site. But who wants to deal with *another* > password? > * OpenID. Fixes the extra password problem, but doesn't give us any > extra information about the user (email address, etc).
Actually most OpenID providers uses OpenID extension which allows to query (with user permission) about data such as e-mail address, real name etc. > * Facebook/Twitter/Google: We get the users email address, but do we > *really* want to force users to have one of those accounts? > Possibly also: * FOAF/SSL: Practically not used in wild I'd give +1 for either common username/password or OpenID. Regards
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