Comments on: 6 Reasons You Will Love OpenID

By: Paul Myatt

Paul Myatt — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 08:28:14 +0000

I love the fact that you can now use you own domain name as your OpenID. I show how to do this with WordPress at paulmyatt.com

By: Tyson Key

Tyson Key — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 17:53:29 +0000

OpenID’s a great thing, and I’m hoping that more sites can implement support for it. If you don’t want to trust your ID to a 3rd party, you can very easily install your own OpenID server (as I decided to do, myself)

By: Seb

Seb — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 04:59:58 +0000

testing my openid…

By: http://damnian.com/

http://damnian.com/ — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 01:18:39 +0000

There is a seventh reason. You can easily set up your site/blog to be an OpenID. Here’s a quick way of doing that with a WordPress blog:

http://eran.sandler.co.il/openid-delegate-wordpress-plugin/

As for FreeYourID, it is neither free nor your ID:

http://blog.phpbb.cc/2007/02/14/thank-you-for-not-registering/

By: Max Howell

Max Howell — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 18:51:08 +0000

For one, there’s no reason your OpenID should be traceable to you. But secondly, yes you can have as many OpenIDs as you like. So just register a random alias at a random OpenID provider and there you go.

There really are no disadvantages to this system, afaict.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 18:35:53 +0000

I hope forums will give an alternative to OpenID, and not force it on me. Most of the time, posting anonymous is good enough. After all, it’s the content of the post that matters, not who posted it.

Forced registration sucks. But with forced registration, I could at least pick a random alias, or use bugmenot. Can I still do this with OpenID?

By: Amarok Blog

Amarok Blog — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Fun OpenID-enabled sites to try: http://jyte.com http://stikis.com http://imakemistakes.com None of these sites require anything other than authentication, so they are fun and hassle free. Comments here pls!