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37signals Product Blog: We'll be retiring our support of OpenID on May 1. The support costs far outweighed the benefits to customers, especially now that 37signals have their own single sign in mechanism that works across all of their products.

Posted 25th January 2011 at 4:17 pm

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11 comments

  1. Bummer. Good company, bad move.

    Saqib Ali - 25th January 2011 19:32 - #

  2. Sad to see this change. After this announcement and Stack Overflow's explanation of the challenges they faced with OpenID (http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/04/openid-one-y ear-later/ ), I'm fearful of its future. We really need to see a set of bulletproof libraries to standardize its implementation, from both the provider and consumer sides.

    Dan Carroll - 25th January 2011 21:18 - #

  3. Dan,

    I have to say that so far I have been very impressed by the Federated Identity implementation in the Google App Engine. It makes it super easy for the developers to write apps using OpenID. I hope Google moves it out of the Experimental phase to full production soon.

    Saqib

    Saqib Ali - 26th January 2011 04:02 - #

  4. So a major problem there users were having was the "often flaky OpenID providers and couldn't log into their account". What if Twitter or Facebook or Disqus go belly up one day? Won't it just leave the problem where it is? This really solves nothing for them. It just keeps them at risk of the same problem later.

    (I understand Facebook probably will always be here, but you still can't be sure they'll never change into a totally different beast that doesn't allow logging in elsewhere using your Facebook ID in 10 or 20 years)

    Devon - 28th January 2011 04:01 - #

  5. "OpenID *IS* dead"

    http://twitter.com/shanselman/status/3051741067504 0256

    Scott Hanselman - 28th January 2011 16:08 - #

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