[OpenID] Fwd: Excellent critique of OpenID usability

[Simon Willison]

On 8/20/07, Joseph Holsten <joseph at josephholsten.com> wrote:
> But openid.net isn't for end-users now, and shouldn't be in the future.

The problem is that it IS, whether we like it or not. I've lost count
of the number of times I've seen someone smart say "so I decided to
have a play with OpenID, but after 30 minutes of searching I couldn't
figure out how to get one so I gave up". That just shouldn't happen.

People will go to openid.net expecting it to tell them how to get
started with OpenID. If it doesn't, the site has failed. We can tell
people "it's for developers" until we're blue in the face, but that
just means that they don't get the answers that they need.