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