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<DIV><FONT face=Calibri>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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Calibri>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).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Calibri>steven</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Calibri><A
href="http://livz.org">http://livz.org</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=chris.messina@gmail.com
href="mailto:chris.messina@gmail.com">Chris Messina</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, May 28, 2009 7:43 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=general@openid.net
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<DIV><B>Cc:</B> <A title=cn@wildbit.com href="mailto:cn@wildbit.com">Chris
Nagele</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [OpenID] Beanstalk removes OpenID support</DIV></DIV></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>So Beanstalk just removed support for OpenID from their hosted
subversion app:
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<DIV><A
href="http://www.wildbit.com/blog/2009/05/26/what-happened-to-openid-support-in-beanstalk/">http://www.wildbit.com/blog/2009/05/26/what-happened-to-openid-support-in-beanstalk/</A></DIV>
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>Anyway, thought it was worth bringing up here, since it's something I
hadn't really seen before.</DIV>
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