Forum:Myopenid Shutting Down

Question

[Stephen]

Not sure if this will have any implications for existing Biostar users logging in with MyOpenID.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6328354

Hello,

I wanted to reach out personally to let you know that we have made the decision to end of life the myOpenID service. myOpenID will be turned off on February 1, 2014.

In 2006 Janrain created myOpenID to fulfill our vision to make registration and login easier on the web for people. Since that time, social networks and email providers such as Facebook, Google, Twitter, LinkedIn and Yahoo! have embraced open identity standards. And now, billions of people who have created accounts with these services can use their identities to easily register and login to sites across the web in the way myOpenID was intended.

By 2009 it had become obvious that the vast majority of consumers would prefer to utilize an existing identity from a recognized provider rather than create their own myOpenID account. As a result, our business focus changed to address this desire, and we introduced social login technology. While the technology is slightly different from where we were in 2006, I’m confident that we are still delivering on our initial promise – that people should take control of their online identity and are empowered to carry those identities with them as they navigate the web.

For those of you who still actively use myOpenID, I can understand your disappointment to hear this news and apologize if this causes you any inconvenience. To reduce this inconvenience, we are delaying the end of life of the service until February 1, 2014 to give you time to begin using other identities on those sites where you use myOpenID today.

Speaking on behalf of Janrain, I truly appreciate your past support of myOpenID.

Sincerely, Larry

Answer 1

[Istvan Albert]

There is a writing on the wall here, OpenID will probably be shut down by most if not all providers.

I have also come to distrust social login providers: Facebook/G+ etc. so those are also not something to migrate to.

Up to now we tried to stay away from having to manage logins/passwords but it seems we will have to implement that within Biostar.

Answer 2

[Giovanni M Dall'Olio]

Myopenid was a nice idea, and I have used it for many websites. Too bad that it is closing its services. Thank you for all your work.

What will happen for the users who log in Biostar from myopenid?

[Istvan Albert]

They would need to log in from another provider and the put in an account merge request

[KJ Lim]

That's good. If not, all bookmarked pages will lost.