OpenID User Experiences found in the wild

Johannes Ernst jernst+openid.net at netmesh.us
Fri Nov 3 16:34:25 UTC 2006


Can you put that issue up on the wiki somewhere -- sounds like a not- 
so-perfect real-world user experience that we don't want others to  
have to go through simply because we forgot to do something about it....


On Nov 2, 2006, at 23:41, Chris Messina wrote:

> Awesome!
>
> Yeah, so here's a pretty interesting use case -- which I think we need
> to address... stringing one OpenID to another... to another... to
> another... and communicating which OpenID sites are consumers vs
> providers -- which is lame, since they all should really go both ways.
>
> Consider this: I added OpenID to my WordPress blog (temporarily). I
> logged in using claimid.com/factoryjoe. That was successful and
> everything worked like it should. I went to my profile and I was able
> to add other OpenID accounts to consolidate my identity... oo, neat!
>
> So I decided to add factoryjoe.livejournal.com... I was taken to
> LiveJournal where I first logged in normally (not with OpenID) and
> that got me nowhere... So I logged out of LJ, and logged back in w/
> OpenID -- which created a *new* account on LJ based on my ClaimID
> account... soooooo.... now I have *two* accounts that I apparently
> can't transfer back to my WordPress blog because it turns out
> LiveJournal doesn't allow for remote authentication.
>
> Jeez, woulda been nice to know that first, eh?
>
> Anyway, that kind of killed it for me.
>
> Oh, and the username created on the WordPress blog was less than ideal
> (not simply Alans fault) since there are no standards on how to create
> GUID-like, URL-based "same names" for databases.
>
> Anyway, just a couple observations and experiences.
>
> Chris
>
> On 11/2/06, Johannes Ernst <jernst+openid.net at netmesh.us> wrote:
>> I started a page to collect what OpenID relying party implementers
>> actually do today in terms of user experience.
>>
>> http://openid.net/wiki/index.php/User_Experience_In_The_Wild
>>
>> It's very rudimentary. Please add to it!!
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
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>> Johannes.
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>> Johannes Ernst
>> NetMesh Inc.
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