By bloid
via teddziuba.com
Published: Sep 02 2008 / 13:48
I've been farting around with Jeff Atwood's StackOverflow for a few weeks now as a beta tester.
Everything was all well and good until I had to figure out how to use OpenID. I've been watching the development of this shit from the sidelines for a while (well, if reading something about OpenID blah blah blah on TechCrunch and saying, aw, that's cute, then getting back to work counts). I understand the problem that OpenID is trying to solve, but the approach is way too, uh, how to put this, San Francisco.
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masteromd.blogspot.com replied ago:
It's a standard! And thats good! Now I can spead my seeds all over the internet and the machine will no what content belongs to me.
drmr replied ago:
And what happens when your usual username is already in use. Because you are not the only person in the world. You need to remember which username was here. What about the password. If there are some rules for the password and your usual password doesn't fit. Now you have to remember the password. And after some time, you are lost. But the most I hate is having to register - fill the same information over and over, and then the form start complaining that I haven't filled all of the required information or that the format is invalid. Some of them are acting smart and force me to retype the password (twice) whenever I have problem with the remaining fields. After this, some of them wants me to activate the account via my email. Oh, I'm so seek and tired of this.
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