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Why? (quokk.au)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/c/mildlyinfuriating/p/990534/why

How hard is it to implement email verification?

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[–] 38 points 4 months ago (1 child)

Because big players (other than StackExchange) never adopted OpenID where you could paste in an arbitrary URL for your identity provider.

Also, OpenID probably shot itself in the foot by using a URL instead of something shaped like an email address, which would have allowed a zero-effort upgrade for the user if an email provider also wanted to offer OpenID.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago*

    Oh that's actually a standard? Scale model website eduard.com (relatively big from Czech republic) have openID and I never really thought to look into what that is. Shame it didn't take off I guess.

    e: I'm not sure if they still support it but it used to be there for sure.

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