[OpenID] Fwd: Excellent critique of OpenID usability

[Joseph Holsten]

Jonathan Daugherty 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.
>
> +1 on making openid.net more marketing-dense and end-user oriented and
> moving specs / protocol / technical details to something like
> developers.openid.net.  It won't hurt this engineer's feelings if
> those things are somewhere else.  I'd rather see openid.net be useful
> to the (many) people that run away confused; we need them to get
> interested!

I don't know that there is a working document for home page  
improvements, so I created one.
http://openid.net/wiki/index.php/Home_Page_Improvements

I added a horribly rough start on the OP recommendations.

http://josephholsten.com