37signals, the makers of the very popular Basecamp app, has announced they are moving away from the OpenID system for log-in:
We first jumped on the OpenID bandwagon back in 2007 when it was seen as a promising way to make logging into websites simpler. What we’ve learned over the past three years is that it didn’t actually make anything any simpler for the vast majority of our customers.
Instead it just made things harder. Especially when people were having problems with the often flaky OpenID providers and couldn’t log into their account. OpenID has been a burden on support since the day it was launched.
OpenID had a really neat idea to standardize login systems for apps and services but has really been unable to gather the attention and user-base that would make it effective. I’ll admit that I was woo’d pretty heavily with the idea but it never made any sense for any of the apps that I used.
I think the end of OpenID is upon us and frankly I won’t miss it.
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