[OpenID] choosing persona during sign in

[SitG Admin]

At 8:35 PM -0700 6/18/09, Allen Tom wrote:
>Having a OP-NASCAR to kick off the flow, followed by a 
>Persona-NASCAR on the OP's approval screen seems a bit much.

And the OP-NASCAR (death by acronyms! ;D) has already been criticized 
for potentially overwhelming/confusing the user, so it seems even 
more overdone.

>Given that many OPs give away free accounts, and users are not 
>prevented from having multiple accounts, I don't really see the 
>point of a Persona NASCAR.

To preserve the SSO feature?

At 9:32 PM -0700 6/18/09, Allen Tom wrote:
>Even for the users who successfully created multiple OpenIDs for 
>their account, many users were  confused as to why selecting a 
>different OpenID than what they used previously at an RP made them 
>go through the RP's registration flow again as a first time user.

Odd.

>Again, since we all know how OpenID works, it's perfectly logical 
>that choosing a different OpenID would force the user to go through 
>the RP's reg flow again, as a first time user, but that's just a bit 
>too much for many people to deal with.

I don't think it's just OpenID that does this. If we can connect 
what's happening with OpenID and Personas to what users already 
understand to be happening when they log out of one account at the RP 
and then log in with another, I believe they'd adapt quickly to the 
new way of performing their old tricks. This is assuming, of course, 
that they *did* use actual multiple accounts, instead of just using a 
RP's internal method for accessing multiple E-mail addresses with the 
same account. (This example assumes that the RP is a provider of 
E-mail addresses, though it could be something else instead.) Even 
users with access to multiple addresses per account might create more 
accounts if they desired more addresses than were available with a 
single account.

-Shade