Stack Overflow's new Gaming site is in public beta

We'll see how many gamers actually jump through the hoops and confusion that is openid. It's one thing to get programmers or IT to use it and adopt it. It's a whole different story to get an average gamer to use it. These are the same distrustful stubborn people who have been getting hacked for decades by giving up too much personal information. In addition many gamers don't want their game identity anywhere near their real identity. This is compounded by those same gamers being the most active participants and most ardent in their attempt to separate game and real identities.

Now - even though technically they should prefer openid over normal login - that doesn't mean they'll roll with it. There is a lot more involved in making a decision when it breaks convention like their login.

Clearly I prefer the direction that HN and most other startups are going - away from openid. I don't like or agree with limiting users to openid for years old 'industry politicking' reasons. But in the end I use the content and don't give back, so the loss is on the community and site not me. On most stackexchange sites that don't have critical mass, simple decisions like this can still cause a huge problem.

EDIT: Grammar Syntax ...

The best part about this site is that people coming to it will understand that they aren't getting access to the developers (unless they come to visit.) That should rule out half the trolls. The other half will be down-voted.

Very cool. I was just wondering where to post a game design job opening.

Funny how about 1 out of 10 posts is about dwarf fortress.

the niche has potential, but what's the deal with domain name? it could use some imagination and 24 characters is just little too much

Great CSS design.

It's incredible how he keeps expanding into viable markets. Has he opened any "stack" sites that didn't get immediate traction?