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clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Mar-2018 06:01:20 EST clacke

Another piece of the future dies. :'(

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/307647/support-for-openid-ends-on-july-1-2018

> The reality is OpenID support has created a ton of complexity in our codebase and the number of users actively using OpenID simply don't justify that cost.

Google, Facebook, email login: 9.8M
Inactive OpenID users: 268k
Active OpenID users: 13k

I'm the 0.1%. But I think I have a password too.
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  Support for OpenID ends on July 1, 2018
  
  Stack Overflow was an early and strong supporter of OpenID. We built our sign up/log in flow around it. We were idealistic and had high hopes, but these hopes weren't realized. Over the years peopl...
1. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Mar-2018 06:04:09 EST clacke
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  I checked the "My logins" page. Apparently I connected my Google at some point.
  
  > identi.ca/clacke (used Aug 24 '11)
  
  Yep, that was my original SO login. That OpenID provider died in the #pumpocalypse.
  
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