That was always my feeling, too, but at a certain point all those logins start to build up and FB/Twitter auth has gotten far easier. OpenID is definitely geek chic, until you can log in with an email address you already have (StackOverflow.com is a good example of this). Then it’s a one-click signup, which starts to sound pretty ideal.
OpenID or Social Logins for News Projects?
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Do you? Have you? Can you?
I’m looking at using some form of social login (Facebook, Twitter) and/or OpenID for a side project. My day job uses Disqus for comments, which allows a similar palette of auth options.
I’m curious what the experience has been elsewhere of using outside auth on news projects.
(Bonus points if you have a favorite app or library for implementing this in Django)
Chris Amico
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I have not used openid or a social login on any projects, but I appreciate when other projects do. For example, I didn't want to create another login for washingtonpost.com, but am happy to use their facebook login. If they were requesting access to post information to my profile, I'd think twice, but with their site this hasn't been the case.
OpenID is nice because anyone with a Google or Yahoo account has an OpenID (whether they know it or not).
As for a library to implement OpenID in Django, I know the Pinax Project uses django-openid, which in turn uses python-openid. The Django Project also has a cookbook page going over implenting OpenID.
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I used Facebook Connect briefly for a Drupal project, and it was super easy to set up and made my users very happy. I'm not a huge fan of tying my news projects to a corporate, news making entity (at some point, all this Twitter/Facebook/X-service here sounds like an endorsement), but the improvement on the user experience seems like a fair trade off if a lot of your users prefer it.
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Personally, I HATE logging into stuff with my Facebook account. Twitter is OK, as long as nothing ever gets automatically published without my explicit permission. I feel like OpenID is geek chic, most mainstreamers don't know what it is or how it works. I never remember my OpenID accounts.
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I’ve only used django-openid indirectly in playing with Pinax, but it did the job for me.