[Splines]

The top response on Quora is enlightening: http://www.quora.com/What-s-wrong-with-OpenID (also, it's annoying that I can't directly link to a response on Quora).

I really agree with the breakdown there. It's an over-engineered solution to a problem that doesn't really solve it all that well. I also use it to log into SO and the related sites, but frankly it's a PITA. I don't use OpenID to log into HN, and I never have to type in my credentials here, since my browser has the cookie saved.

I also use a password manager, so OpenID doesn't offer any additional security to me. As for privacy, the potential problems are too abstract for me to understand. I'm technical, but I don't understand OpenID on a deep level. I'd hardly expect your casual home user to know this either.

OpenID seems like a product that was designed in a vacuum, and should have had a stronger vision behind it. It's put together well, but the thing as a whole just doesn't do what it needs to do.

[Locke1689]

Ugh, the reason OpenID exists isn't to make it easier on the user, it's to solve the problem that most developers are dumber than rocks.

[pixelcort]

Sure you can link to a response:

http://www.quora.com/What-s-wrong-with-OpenID#ans24870

[Splines]

Thanks. Care to explain how you did that?

I just hovered over everything on that comment, and found out that the date (of all things!) is permalink-ish.

[pixelcort]

I looked at the page using Safari's Web Inspector to find an id that looked like it represented an answer.

[xal]

that's a pattern started by twitter by the way.

[sambeau]

Like modern Twitter the date seems to be the permalink:

http://www.quora.com/What-s-wrong-with-OpenID/answer/Yishan-...