[OpenID] Beanstalk removes OpenID support

Thu May 28 07:46:34 UTC 2009

I do find it frustrating (and there is an additional comment from Bloom Apps below in that post) when companies remove (or don't add) features without asking customers whether they find it useful.

There are so many social ways to get feedback on features. Perhaps some of the most valued clients loved the OpenID integration (again already a couple of comments to that post saying so).

steven
http://livz.org

From: Chris Messina 
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 7:43 AM
To: OpenID List 
Cc: Chris Nagele 
Subject: [OpenID] Beanstalk removes OpenID support

So Beanstalk just removed support for OpenID from their hosted subversion app: 

http://www.wildbit.com/blog/2009/05/26/what-happened-to-openid-support-in-beanstalk/

I find this both interesting and frustrating, since I used OpenID to sign in to my Beanstalk account and now can't remember my username. Heh, go figure.

Still, it points out that the lack of desktop/API solution for OpenID as a *baked* solution could really hurt the protocol as OpenID seeps into more applications. I mean, Beanstalk is still one application, but the fact that we as a community haven't articulated how to use OpenID with SVN (or built the technical machinery to make that easy) ultimately impacts adoption.

Anyway, thought it was worth bringing up here, since it's something I hadn't really seen before.

Chris

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