Slax author's Blog

19

January
2013

Yahoo and Twitter sign in done

You can now sign in to Slax website using Yahoo! or Twitter account.

User comments
Mocabilly 2013-01-19 07:56

I'm sorry Tomas, but I would be very happy if I could sign in as before..
(not using any third party soc. media account, like gmail, facebook, yahoo and so on).

You probably have your reasons for letting people use "social-media-accounts" to subscribe, but I think it raises the bar.. makes people _not_ join..

If (serious) people want to subscribe, contribute and so on (contribute in a serieus way), they do not mind subscribing by using a "classic" form.

check sign 2013-01-19 13:45

bzzbzz bzzz

Kadalka 2013-01-20 16:03

@Mocabilly 2013-01-19 07:56

--- "If (serious) people want to subscribe, contribute and so on (contribute in a serieus way), they do not mind subscribing by using a "classic" form" [...]

Depends...
Serious people don't want to use facebook and other social media to contribute unless it comes to OpenID...

Yahoo uses OpenID if you activate it...

jcsoh 2013-01-20 21:02

Another issue maybe the login name used . In our other sosial account we may be using other login name , but when I login slax , I want to be shown as jcsoh since this is what I used all the while.

Lightning 2013-01-20 23:29

<quote jcsoh>
Another issue maybe the login name used . In our other sosial account we may be using other login name , but when I login slax , I want to be shown as jcsoh since this is what I used all the while.
</quote>

yeah exactly. even if i would use one of the deified social media and be (theoretically) able to log in, i wouldn't do as many of them require to use real-names and publish other personal details without any data privacy and/or protection. i simply wouldn't want them to be linked everywhere in the web to make profiling more easy than it already is.

ps.: tomas, your blog needs a quoting-function :)

Mocabilly 2013-01-23 11:04

For me, it's what both jcsoh and Lightning mention..

I like to point out that privacy is very important to me.
I do not agree with the End User Agreement(s) of the "soc. media", so I will not join.
To me it's kind of discriminating that one can not take part without a soc. med. account.

And, of course, you can "bypass" the soc. med. problem by creating a ghost account but then again.. serious, how persisting does one have to be to join?
(I just want to point out that using the soc. media. as a sort of "filter" does not work)