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by latchkey 4988 days ago
Implementing GitHub login is no more valuable than offering Facebook login. It ties things to a single identity provider and limits the number of people who can use it (ie: no FB/GH account, no ability to use it).

Why not implement Mozilla Persona instead?
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Narkov 4988 days ago
Obligatory XKCD comic:

http://xkcd.com/927/

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latchkey 4988 days ago
i heart xkcd.
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artursapek 4988 days ago
Because what the hell is Mozilla Persona? The Parse user base and the GitHub user base overlap a lot.
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callahad 4988 days ago
Arguably, Persona and Parse more than overlap: the supported user base of Persona is a proper superset of Parse's actual and potential user bases. :)

Persona works with any email address, and it's completely decentralized (albeit with a temporary, centralized fallback for bootstrapping)

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latchkey 4988 days ago
It doesn't matter really what 'Mozilla Persona' is. All that matters is that instead of implementing GitHub login, which is a single identity provider, sites should focus on implementing a global solution to login now that a viable one is available.

The general concept here is that the user just needs an email address and a password to login to any site. I'm tired of having to remember a bunch of usernames and passwords, aren't you?

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