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Re: Ask HN: What percentage of your users are using social login?

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Post by acheron »

Razengan wrote: post #8
arsalanb wrote: post #7

I'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.

Same. And I hold grudges. Lyft and Spotify used to require Facebook logins, and even though they have since removed the requirement, I still feel negatively towards them for it and don’t use them to this day.

Re: Ask HN: What percentage of your users are using social login?

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Post by wkrause »

I'm the creator of Langliter, which launched a little over a month ago.

40% email

30% Google

30% Facebook

Google might be a little under represented due to a bug (was fixed within a couple days) that prevented some Android users from using it to create an account.

Re: Ask HN: What percentage of your users are using social login?

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Post by jiveturkey »

There's an evil with social login in that you give up the knowledge of your social (presumably personal) network to random 3rd parties. That's even worse than email address.

With password managers being essentially mandatory now, it's not too hard to create a new email/password based account for every new site.

But recently I realized that I don't use my FB for anything. I have zero friends, don't allow friend requests and am unsearchable AFAIK. So now I am going to start using that account for social login, that way I don't have to bother with email/password.

Re: Ask HN: What percentage of your users are using social login?

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Post by Symbiote »

arsalanb wrote: post #17
wepple wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

“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 insult…

I built the log-in before the FB/CA situation and am yet to understand how it may change things. However, I personally think people will move on from this like nothing ever happened (which is sad)

> I personally think people will move on from this like nothing ever happened (which is sad)

Does that include you?

You could add the usual email login, or go further and prevent new Facebook logins, or remove it completely.

Re: Ask HN: What percentage of your users are using social login?

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Post by oddlyaromatic »

davnicwil wrote: post #18
Xeoncross wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting, I always assumed this would be too much hassle for users since after the first login, the browser (mobile or desktop) would remember the password. Certainly seems like an optimum solution to typing a password on first login though (assuming the email is prompt).

Couple of points, first of all the thing the browser can still remember is the auth token in a non-expiring cookie. As the majority of users will rarely if ever clear cookies or change browsers, this nullifies the password remembering feature. Secondly, particularly on mobile, tapping through to email and hitting a link is probably faster and more convenient for most users than simply entering a password on the keybo…

I used a fundraising tool recently with this kind of passwordless workflow. It's a tool that you only use once a year for about 30 days, and your authenticated session can last about that long. Which means you do the process once on each computer you use, and then you never have to remember the password the next year. It's great.

Re: Ask HN: What percentage of your users are using social login?

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Post by scrollaway »

100% (Blizzard login). My site is based on a Blizzard game, so it doesn't really make sense to have an account unless it's linked to a blizzard account.

But what that means is that if your upstream login provider is down or having issues, your users can't log into your site, so don't do this unless it really makes sense for you.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/282271461853626368/42...

OTOH, we don't really have to deal with spam; that part has been nice.

Re: Ask HN: What percentage of your users are using social login?

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Post by chrischen »

arsalanb wrote: post #7

I'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 anything an Email/Password is more of a hassle and a better filter for "apostles" than one-click facebook/google.
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