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We're turning off Clickpass March 15. How to keep your HN account.

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Re: We're turning off Clickpass March 15. How to keep your HN account.

#11

I just followed the steps, but I'm getting a "Bad login." message when I try to sign in using Chrome's incognito mode. How long before the new username/password combo works?

Make sure you use correct capitalization of your username. The login screen is case sensitive. (Which seems crazy to me)

Re: We're turning off Clickpass March 15. How to keep your HN account.

#13
(no one can see it except you and us)

Offtopic, but I used to think that too until a coworker I'd never met emailed me using that address, warning me that apparently the proxy had cached my view of my profile page and he was able to view it. Has this been fixed yet?

Re: We're turning off Clickpass March 15. How to keep your HN account.

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post #12

When a tech-audience orientated website like HN stops using OpenID, I think we can say that OpenID is firmly dead. Sad, I think HN was one of my last consumers of my OpenID account.

Do you think? Whenever I get a change to use OpenID on a website I immediately do so. I personally think it's very useful but perhaps a bit too complicated for non-tech users. Although the OpenID provider buttons (think StackOverflow) do make it easier.

Re: We're turning off Clickpass March 15. How to keep your HN account.

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post #12

When a tech-audience orientated website like HN stops using OpenID, I think we can say that OpenID is firmly dead. Sad, I think HN was one of my last consumers of my OpenID account.

I really like using OpenID on StackExchange sites. I just click the "Google" button and I'm logged in!

What's funny to me is how many sites rushed to be OpenID providers, but there were not very many consumers. I tried counting once but I lost count at 15 OpenID accounts that I have from various sites. So much for single sign-on.

Re: We're turning off Clickpass March 15. How to keep your HN account.

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post #10

I just followed the steps, but I'm getting a "Bad login." message when I try to sign in using Chrome's incognito mode. How long before the new username/password combo works?

It should work immediately. So either you mistyped something or incognito mode does something that breaks login.

I can't see it being the latter. I've used incognito mode to test logins for web development and there's nothing out of the ordinary.

Re: We're turning off Clickpass March 15. How to keep your HN account.

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post #12

When a tech-audience orientated website like HN stops using OpenID, I think we can say that OpenID is firmly dead. Sad, I think HN was one of my last consumers of my OpenID account.

I really like OpenID. As a rule of thumb, I prefer OpenID whenever I can...

Re: We're turning off Clickpass March 15. How to keep your HN account.

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post #13

(no one can see it except you and us) Offtopic, but I used to think that too until a coworker I'd never met emailed me using that address, warning me that apparently the proxy had cached my view of my profile page and he was able to view it. Has this been fixed yet?

The only real way to solve it is to use HTTPS. The Gmail team had this problem for the longest time and is one of the biggest reasons they added forced-HTTPS as an option in account settings.

Whatever you do, there will always be a non-trivial number of ISPs and company networks that have misconfigured proxies that overzealously cache sensitive data and display to everyone with not a care in the world.

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