vimeo cul-de-sac

[Luke Shepard]

Thanks for the feedback, ben. You raise a good point - a lot of RPs have struggled with what to do when they don't collect a password. For some Connect partners, they have nailed all the use cases, but occasionally we find an edge case that's still assuming pw or email. 

Others just require a new password anyway- that let's them punt on the difficult issues while still getting some of the benefits of a facebook login (like feed and profile data)

These are definitely some of the issues we should be educating rps about.

I'll pass this along to vimeo.

----- Original Message -----
From: user-experience-bounces at openid.net <user-experience-bounces at openid.net>
To: user-experience at openid.net <user-experience at openid.net>
Sent: Mon Mar 30 10:44:53 2009
Subject: vimeo cul-de-sac

I got into a cul-de-sac today with vimeo facebook connect, and thought it
would be good to highlight the case so it can be avoided in openid
interaction.

I have a vimeo account, but wasn't signed-in to it. I wanted to try the
facebook sign-in, so I clicked the fb button, then got an overlay with prefs
to allow updates to facebook and the message that a vimeo account had been
created linked to my facebook account. So far so good.

There's no way on vimeo to link a different vimeo account to the new
facebook one, but I imagine they will take care of that at some point. What
got me was that when I wanted to remove the new facebook account I had
created (since it's useless to me), vimeo asked me to verify my password. I
hadn't created one, of course, so I was unable to remove the account. Since
I had already linked my facebook account with an account on vimeo, I
couldn't fix it afterwards either from my real vimeo account.

best,
Ben

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