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Just curious: why use more than one OpenID account in the first place? I've genuinely never understood why people would do that. Am I missing something?



With all the little icons, I generally forget which one I clicked in the first place. Then I remember that I used Google's, but forget which email address. It's not so much forgetting because I have a bunch of OpenID accounts, it's that I don't use it enough to remember the one that I do use.

Just give me the "Save username and password" option in Firefox and I'm happy.


Have your saved username and passwords sync to the cloud, and you'll be even happier. Jeff is still beating a still-born horse here -- yes, a problem exists, but OpenID is the wrong solution.


I only have the one that I used to sign up for StackOverflow. Thus far nothing else has required it. Or rather, nothing else that requires it has been so compelling in other ways that I'm willing to put up with OpenID in order to use them.

Now that Gmail is a provider, the barrier is lower, but back then you had your pick of a half-dozen fly by night early adopter providers. So anybody who used it back then has at least one worthless OpenID.




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