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by moe 5627 days ago
StackOverflow is a good example (IMHO) of OpenID login done right.

The problem is that StackOverflow is also about the only example of OpenID done right, or done at all...

Yes, there are a few others. But at least in my internet usage I hardly ever run into one. I can't remember having used my OpenID for any site other than SO in the past couple years.

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Other examples of user-friendly OpenID login pages:

* Tripit.com only supports Google, Google Apps, and Facebook, but it's very end-user friendly to use any of those three.

* Catch.com, like Tripit, supports Google and Facebook OpenID logins.

* mindmeister.com supports Google, Google Apps, or a generic OpenID login.

* springnote.com supports a number of openID providers including generic OpenID. This one is actually an even better example than StackOverflow of an end-user friendly OpenID login/signup page.

Those are just ones I pulled from my Google account settings page. I'm sure there are other good examples out there.

It shows that it's possible. The question is then why others don't implement it well. Obviously it's not worth it to them, but I think that say more about those doing the poor implementations than it does about OpenID.