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

Post by chiefalchemist » Sat, Mar 24, 2018, 5:52 PM UTC

tootie wrote: post #51

jiveturkey wrote: post #23

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 reques…

I don't think password managers have as much penetration as you think and they only work on devices you own. Social login doesn't necessarily give up that much info. Your social network knows who logged in to. The third-party only gets whatever info you accede to which usually is just an email address or name. The huge bonus to users and site owners is that that site isn't storing a password for you. It's easy to scr…

Post by oedenfield » Sat, Mar 24, 2018, 5:53 PM UTC

jiveturkey wrote: post #23

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 reques…

Post by sebleon » Sat, Mar 24, 2018, 6:05 PM UTC

stickfigure wrote: post #64

I have a B2B app. It allows Google Sign-In only. My last B2B app was the same. Nobody complained. Understand your audience. If you can just go with something like Google, do it; you'll save a ton of time and can focus on developing features your customers are willing to actually pay money for. Authentication method is not usually a value proposition. Only implement multi-service auth as a last resort. It's great for…

Post by ryanmarsh » Sat, Mar 24, 2018, 6:17 PM UTC

eklitzke wrote: post #66

jiveturkey wrote: post #23

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 reques…

You must be fun at parties.

Post by hamstercat » Sat, Mar 24, 2018, 6:39 PM UTC

sebleon wrote: post #65

stickfigure wrote: post #64

I have a B2B app. It allows Google Sign-In only. My last B2B app was the same. Nobody complained. Understand your audience. If you can just go with something like Google, do it; you'll save a ton of time and can focus on developing features your customers are willing to actually pay money for. Authentication method is not usually a value proposition. Only implement multi-service auth as a last resort. It's great for…

> development work is significant Not true, these guys invested a lot in making their sdks easy to integrate. You should be able to have fb/twitter/Pinterest/etc login in an afternoon