In first quarter of 2018, what percentage of you users have been using social login (Facebook/google/etc) for you projects? I've never liked the idea of using social login as a customer, but I don't want to alienate users as a dev.
Ask HN: What percentage of your users are using social login?
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Re: Ask HN: What percentage of your users are using social login?
#2My current project doesn’t implement social logins yet.
On my previous one, on a B2C niche site, i’d say maybe 30% used social logins. One thing you want to consider is allow users to login in multiple fashions - like if you recognize an email that is already a social login, offer them a way to create a site password too.
In my case, maybe 80% of support requests we got were people forgetting they signed up with a social login and then wondering why their passwords weren’t working.
Re: Ask HN: What percentage of your users are using social login?
#3Not a fan so not defending but I wouldn't classify Google as social login.
Re: Ask HN: What percentage of your users are using social login?
#4This will probably depend on what market the project is in. Tesults does not have a social login option but it is a business/dev app and not consumer so it would be strange to allow a social login, you’re supposed to add your colleagues/team from work using your work emails.
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#5Not a fan so not defending but I wouldn't classify Google as social login.
Email was the original social network (still left).
Re: Ask HN: What percentage of your users are using social login?
#6This will probably depend on what market the project is in. Tesults does not have a social login option but it is a business/dev app and not consumer so it would be strange to allow a social login, you’re supposed to add your colleagues/team from work using your work emails.
It's still useful in a B2B context - the 'google' login button also works for G Suite (google apps) accounts.
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#7I'm currently working on a project which has only social login (but allows you to choose between facebook and google) and this was a very deliberate move. For any given person on this planet, there is a higher chance that they use facebook or gmail over any other "service", so no need to offer support for 10 different social logins.
Also, this is more about imposing a qualitative filter on the users who sign up. If the earliest users you have don't like you enough to give you their social login details (assuming, of course, you don't do something silly that poses a security threat) then do they really like you enough?
I like to think of my earliest users as "apostles" (I even call them that. Not to their face, but yeah) and they should have a bit of faith in the service. If they don't, then they are not really apostles after all.
Re: Ask HN: What percentage of your users are using social login?
#8I'm currently working on a project which has only social login (but allows you to choose between facebook and google) and this was a very deliberate move. For any given person on this planet, there is a higher chance that they use facebook or gmail over any other "service", so no need to offer support for 10 different social logins. Also, this is more about imposing a qualitative filter on the users who sign up. If t…
I will never use your product or service, if it only allows "social login."
If it's an app that requires ANY sign-up to begin using it, I will uninstall it, unless I feel it offers a tremendous value to me.
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#9For my little side project I’m using email only.
Tangentially related, I quite like Medium’s workflow where you don’t need to enter passwords anymore. You just enter your address, they send a login email, you click the link in your email, and it redirects you to Medium, logged in.
Re: Ask HN: What percentage of your users are using social login?
#10I'm currently working on a project which has only social login (but allows you to choose between facebook and google) and this was a very deliberate move. For any given person on this planet, there is a higher chance that they use facebook or gmail over any other "service", so no need to offer support for 10 different social logins. Also, this is more about imposing a qualitative filter on the users who sign up. If t…
“If the earliest users you have don't like you enough to give you their social login details ”
Perhaps I’m an anomaly, but if there is no regular email sign-up, I’m not using your product, period.
There’s enough information floating around about me in databases all over the world, I don’t need them to be further connected and linked.
To see the situation with FB/CA and then demand your users use their login is insulting to me.