I’m glad someone else wrote this. I haven’t been able to figure out the need for OpenID, but figured that it might be my issue since the people behind it are so passionate. I use a variation of the second item on his list of how people deal with registering at a site: I use 1password to remember my login info – it works with the major browsers and (using dropbox) I can keep in sync on other computers (and there’s an iphone app). Anyway, I understand what’s going on with OpenID, yet I still can’t fathom what’s happening when I go to a site that supports it. I can’t imagine a lay-person (non-geek) even wanting to figure it out, let alone trying. It’s not easy (either setting up your OpenID account, or logging into a site using it), it’s not seemless. It makes logging into a site more difficult (to do and understand), not less. So, just from that point of view, it’s a failure. As Yishan Wong mentions, the only real solution is for sites to come up with ways for you not to have to register (though my solution works pretty nicely for me, thanks 1password! 
What’s wrong with OpenID? – Quora
Posted by robl on December 15, 2010
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