Not a fan so not defending but I wouldn't classify Google as social login.
Email was the original social network (still left).
Nah, the PSTN was the original social network. And they even developed the first cloud app: voicemail.
Ask HN: What percentage of your users are using social login?
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#32We offer Google login on https://usebx.com/app . Usually 50% of users make use of it. Some will just try it out with the Google login and then sign up with their company email address.
Hey! Just a suggestion: Try to make the google sign in stand out a bit more, for it to be easier to spot. Maybe the 'G' logo or something
Ps. Good looking demo
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#33For 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.
I like it too. No need for confirmation as you’re already accessing your email to login. It’s far more secure as the average user will most likely use the same password as the email to sign up with.
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#35I'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.
That's it exactly, he only wants people that finds his service of tremendous value. I think it makes sense as a way to deter casual sign ups.
Re: Ask HN: What percentage of your users are using social login?
#36We offer Google login on https://usebx.com/app . Usually 50% of users make use of it. Some will just try it out with the Google login and then sign up with their company email address.
Hey! Just a suggestion: Try to make the google sign in stand out a bit more, for it to be easier to spot. Maybe the 'G' logo or something Ps. Good looking demo
Thanks for the feedback - totally agree with you! We will incorporate the change into our next release in a couple of weeks :)
Re: Ask HN: What percentage of your users are using social login?
#37There'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 reques…
3rd party knowing about your social network is one thing; do you not also worry about Facebook knowing about all these 3rd party things too?
Re: Ask HN: What percentage of your users are using social login?
#38Curious: has anyone integrated Github login? What percentage of your users use Github?
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#39As a user I detest social logins, and would prefer an account at the website to hci I want access. It is a privacy thing.
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#40For 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.
For real critical cases, I think a major issue might be plaintext SMTP.