OpenID Is Why I Hate The Internet
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OpenID Is Why I Hate The Internet
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#2Wow. Someone who can curse a lot. Read the whole thing, and all I see is someone who's out of touch and can't express even their own vapid complaints in a logical or consistent manner.
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#3I had the same beef when I was getting into Stack Overflow. OpenID just complicates the signup process with little tangible benefit, solving a problem few users actually have. UI-wise, it feels little better than Microsoft requiring a Passport account only OpenID is even more complicated since you have many different providers to choose from. Maybe it'll be awesome in 5 years when users all understand what OpenID is about or after more sites design kick-ass UIs around it.
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#4Wow. Someone who can curse a lot. Read the whole thing, and all I see is someone who's out of touch and can't express even their own vapid complaints in a logical or consistent manner.
I find that unlike most bloggers, Ted actually is pretty smart about what users like and don't like.
OpenID is cluttered. It takes longer to use it than it does to just reregister every single time. Even Clickpass doesn't speed things up. It's hailed as brilliant because it's open, but it's poorly implemented to a fault.
I argued in another thread that Facebook Connect was the technology to bet on. It's closed, but it actually offers a one-click login. The people in the comments thread, it seemed at the time, were evenly split into two camps: people who had used both and agreed, and people who disagreed because FConnect wasn't an open format.
Ted's swearing also comes across well to me (and, it would seem, to a lot of other people). I like that he gets worked up over this. It cuts out a lot of bullshit and sounds like he genuinely cares about the things he writes about.
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#5Wow. Someone who can curse a lot. Read the whole thing, and all I see is someone who's out of touch and can't express even their own vapid complaints in a logical or consistent manner.
I honestly enjoy most of Ted's posts on his blog and previously on Uncov. You know he's not censoring himself and he's often willing to say things other bloggers won't cause he's not caught up trying to be PC.
Sure, some of his posts are extreme, but even those posts appeal to the same part of my brain that Valleywag appeals to.
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#6OpenID and IPv6 seem to share the same problem really.
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#7Haha. I think Ted threw in that last part about using MD5 hashes in his password table just to piss off the people who were really paying attention.
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#8Wow. Someone who can curse a lot. Read the whole thing, and all I see is someone who's out of touch and can't express even their own vapid complaints in a logical or consistent manner.
Cursing is fun. Especially on a communication medium that's not suppose to be at all serious.
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#9Wow. Someone who can curse a lot. Read the whole thing, and all I see is someone who's out of touch and can't express even their own vapid complaints in a logical or consistent manner.
I find that unlike most bloggers, Ted actually is pretty smart about what users like and don't like. OpenID is cluttered. It takes longer to use it than it does to just reregister every single time. Even Clickpass doesn't speed things up. It's hailed as brilliant because it's open, but it's poorly implemented to a fault. I argued in another thread that Facebook Connect was the technology to bet on. It's closed, but i…
Just curious, what's poorly implemented about Clickpass?
Re: OpenID Is Why I Hate The Internet
#10Like Tedd Ziuba, I also didn't have an OpenID when joining Stack Overflow. Instead of becoming annoyed with OpenID (which, admittedly, I am), I became annoyed with Stack Overflow for requiring one.
What I did was register my own domain (callna.me) and install Drupal 6 with the OpenID Provider module. Instant OpenID.
Anyway, his post makes him sound like an idiot. It's a good thing comments are turned off on his post.