[OpenID board] BOARD VOTE: Motion to update Rails plugin andOpenID.net ...
Dick Hardt
dick.hardt at gmail.com
Thu Dec 18 18:44:01 UTC 2008
On 18-Dec-08, at 10:27 AM, Brian Kissel wrote:
> I don’t know how much more clear I can be. I’m NOT advocating for
> RPX, I’m advocating for a better UX on the OIDF website. Rip out
> RPX today, that’s fine. Ask the community how we can improve OpenID
> login on the OIDF website, then get volunteers to implement it or
> pay Refresh or anyone else to implement it. But let’s make the OIDF
> website a showcase of the goodness of OpenID for users and RPs.
> Like it or not, the OIDF website is a showcase for the broader
> market, not just a tool for OIDF members. If we can improve UX and
> maintain neutrality, great. But let’s not sacrifice UX for
> neutrality if we know that the existing neutral UX is NOT
> intuitive. Would love to see some ideas on what we could be doing
> to improve intuitiveness rather than just saying a text box is
> neutral, so let’s just take the easy path and go that way.
>
> Would like to hear from some others on how we can improve
> intuitiveness and whether it’s important, not only on our website,
> but as a fundamental goal for the OIDF.
That is more clear -- although your other comments indicate you are
justifying why it is ok to use RPX.
OpenID UX is an issue. I do NOT think the OIDF website is the place to
experiment, particularly during an election process.
This is a technical issue -- and the OIDF is there to facilitate
resolving the problem -- the Foundation bylaws explicitly forbid the
Foundation from directly resolving technical issues.
There is pretty active discussion on UX issues on the lists now. I
think people are looking at how to solve it -- and there is NO clear
solution that has gained consensus.
I think we are WAY off topic on this thread now.
-- Dick
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