OpenID Consumer and Server
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hello there everybody,
everyone interested in the OpenId Consumer SSO (Single Sign On) on .com comment boxes can vote for an idea of the Open ID Integration into single-user WP core*. if only OI will ever appear in the .org core, it’ll inevitably get ported into WPMU and hence come to .com this way.
currently it’s a #7 in the ‘most popular’ ideas list.
frankly not sure if any of ideas presented over there will ever be considered and implemented, but someone passing himself as ‘Matt @ http.//photomatt.net/’ was tried to assure me that
the ideas forum is a really big part of our development planning process and has been a huge success thus far.
the problem is we can’t be sure if that comment was left by a real Matt or someone else**, who just used Matt’s URL as his ID because… well, you know, .com yet does not OI consumer.
*) there are also several dupe threads on this subj; use search form, it’s at the bottom of page as always on bbPress.
**) I actually think it was a drMike, aka ‘notgoingtohappen @ wp.com’ on this page above.
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Livejournal uses OpenID? Finally a use for it.
Well that’s a bit uncalled for. OpenID is certainly not as prolific as some would like, but it’s not a rarity. (Not to even mention LiveJournal was the first out of the gate with OpenID support, serving and consuming, given that BradFitz created it…)
Jyte, Pibb, Zooomr, ToodleDo, LiveJournal (and practically all its variants), numerous blogs in the blogosphere, not to mention the 37Signals product sites, ClaimID (if you’re into the whole ‘claiming your chunk of the internet’ game), I do believe (nearly?) all AOL/Netscape authenticated pages support it, Plaxo recently came around, and there are plenty more sites out there, and in the works.
the problem is we can’t be sure if that comment was left by a real Matt or someone else**, who just used Matt’s URL as his ID because… well, you know, .com yet does not OI consumer.
That right there is irony.
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P.S. Filtering <q> is still freaking annoying. -
Thanks to Jason for the previous entry. I was thinking of writing something along those lines, but didn’t get round to it.
37signals is a particularly interesting case. There was a demand for a single sign-on across its multiple web applications (Backpack, Basecamp, Highrise, etc.). Rather than develop a 37s id specific to its own services, it went to OpenID.
So now, its a lot simpler for me to switch between BackPack and Highrise. And, once I’ve signed on to one of those services, I’m most of the way toward being signed on to Jyte and other consumers of OpenID. -
Of those, only LiveJournal and Plaxo are things that I encounter regularly. Part of the problem with OpenID seems to be that it has high awareness and penetration in the tech blogging world but minimal infiltration in the “civilian” cybersphere. Given that fewer than 17% of blogging is tech blogging nowadays, and more than 50% social, an outreach to those in less techy realms such as LiveJournal is the best way to grow the feature.
Like WordPress.com, ferinstance.
I wasn’t trying to be offensive. I was simply pointing out that it’s not as compelling as it could be with its current distribution.
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There are plenty of providers nowadays ( >_> ), so more consumers would be GREATLY APPRECIATED. (Hint hint, wp crew.)
Yes, I agree. More social and “civilian” cybersphere consumers would be nice, not to mention places would GREATLY benefit (facebook, ning, …myspace… I guess).
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It’s not a very good idea to leave hints in forum threads for staff. Please state specifically what you want using this contact form http://wordpress.com/contact-support/
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It’s not a very good idea to leave hints in forum threads alone ;P. I would imagine that WP (.com AND .org!) staff are more than aware of my request, and I hesitate to leave yet another request for consumer support.
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I actually had a lot more to my post that I edited out. I made reference to “The Chicken and the Egg”, but it’s pretty clear by now that we have the Chicken in the form of plenty of consumers (or would that be the Egg?… ANYWAYS).
Discussion is not futile, because gaining user support means the potential for more feedback / drive for the want of OpenID consuming.
2 posts back is hardly posting again and again just whining for it.And in the case of my last post, you told me that staff doesn’t necessarily read the forums, and to submit support/feedback.
And I said that I don’t want to be a burden, given how much / how prolific this request exists in WP land. And then you said that posting repeated was futi-, and now I’m repeating myself. Sorry :D. -
Blogger beat WordPress to the punch.
Well, that’s a half truth. Blogger doesn’t serve identities, so Blogger did what WordPress didn’t :P.I wonder if Brad had a hand in that, now that he’s at Google, and no longer with 6A.
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OpenID creates an external link…
Don’t get me wrong, that change is not a good thing, but it’s not a terrible thing either (given the above). -
What the crap, isn’t there a one hour timeframe for editting a post?
Urgh... anyways.Most of those “External providers” are OpenIDs anyways. (Vox serves, LiveJournal serves, WordPress serves, and so on). Granted, everyone isn’t (Xanga, self-hosted blog sites, etc.) and not everyone will want to use their OpenID.
It goes both ways, so I’ll just repeat myself.
It is not a good thing, but it’s also not a terrible thing.
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Editing our forum posts is passe: http://mark.wordpress.com/2007/10/30/editing-forum-posts/
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Interesting.
There does definitely need to be a preview button in lieu of an edit button, however.
This would never fly on my forums, where we maintain up to date information in the first post of the thread. You even see that here, stickied information threads, etc.
Practical application arguments be damned. Interesting decisions all around.
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