[OpenID] Eating our own dog food

[Chris Messina]

+1.

Great points... we should definitely be showcasing how "cool" and "useful"
OpenID can be — especially in cases like this. Exposing the inner workings
(or limitations?) of the technology only works to reinforce people's
stereotypes of OpenID — that's it's hard to use, confusing, and ugly (we're
Specimen A for proving all those points!).

Perhaps this is something that should be listed either on Get Satisfaction
and/or UserVoice so we have it captured somewhere more public (sorry, but
our mailing list archives are a beast to search and navigate).

Chris

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Johannes Ernst <jernst+openid.net@
netmesh.us> wrote:

> I just realize that the membership pages on openid.net show all http URLs
> *without* the protocol. E.g the voting page lists the following candidates:
>
> mfrons22.wordpress.com
> allentom.com
> www.google.com/accounts/o…
> bkkissel.myopenid.com
> daniel.jacobson.myopenid.…
> blame.ca
> www.google.com/profiles/d…
> =!BF81.FD97.C81B.B4E5
> openid.jonathancoffman.co…
> josephsmarr.com
> =!477C.45CF.CAA7.A71
> martin.paljak.pri.ee
> www.google.com/accounts/o…
> otti.clavid.ch
>
> If we continue to insist that http://XXX and https://XXX are two different
> OpenIDs, we should not list them this way. (Personally, I don't, but that
> was the majority view every time somebody asked.)
>
> I also question whether abbreviating OpenIDs is ever a good idea, or
> whether printing an i-number instead of something human-comprehensible.
>
> Also, while we are on the subject, why not make them all clickable, so we
> can learn something about the candidates? Remember, this is the original use
> case for why http URLs as identifiers as opposed to any other identifier.
> And for voting purposes, that makes every sense in the world as all of the
> above http OpenIDs would lead to interesting pages about the candidates, if
> they were clickable that is. The abbreviated ones aren't even copy-pasteable
> ...
>
>
> P.S. This is intended to be a bunch of bug reports against the app, not a
> complaint. ;-) Didn't know where the bug tracking system was so I post it
> here ;-)
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