Kevin Quillen

I know OpenID is supposed to be this great new technology designed to prove people are who they say they are, and so folks don’t have to login / remember a bunch of passwords to websites, but holy god.

It’s frustrating to work in a development site testing OpenIDs and launch it. Since it is now a different domain than the development URL, existing OpenIDs are no longer valid and thus you can lock yourself out of your existing account. C’mon.

Good thing this site has ‘alternate’ OpenIDs, I had to work my way backwards associating alternate IDs and tricking the system by fudging up the primary OpenID to log my way back up the chain to my original account and delete the others.

After that, I’d simply prefer the good ol login form.

I wonder if anyone else has had trouble working with OpenID systems.

I appreciate the tech but the implementations need work. I’ve also had trouble when using different machines to work on the same site under the same OpenID.