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I really don't like that I have to sign in with Google or Facebook to try it in read/write mode. Read-only mode is not good enough for me to tell if it's something I want to use, and having to use Google or Facebook just to try it is a dealbreaker for me, sorry. Which is a shame, because it looks neat.

Fix that, then I'd be interested in giving it a try.

Edit: I missed the ability to sign in without Google/Facebook. It was a bit too small to notice. That being said... I signed up and gave it a try anyway, despite my misgivings. It's a neat product.

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About your login issues, I integrated BrowserID to a project I'm working on the other day, and my god, am I in love. BrowserID.org is beautiful and very well made, easy to use and easy for the users to understand (you don't really realize you're at a third party website).

Integration with django took about ten minutes and I don't have to wrestle with all the forgotten password templates and workflows, changing passwords, storing them securely, etc etc any longer. Also, it doesn't depend on Facebook, Google or anyone else (if I want to run the verification myself).

I really hope it catches on, and I'd strongly recommend it to any dev.

BrowserID looks interesting, but what about on public terminals? The average user may not understand that they're logged in to your site and BrowserID, and as such would leave themselves mistakenly logged in.

See the BrowserID demo site - http://myfavoritebeer.org/ - as an example of this. Once you're logged in, the "logout" button does not truly mean logout - anyone could log you back in in two clicks.

That's a good point, they need a "public terminal" option at browserid.org. I'll email them now.

However, considering that it's pretty easy to add two-factor authentication to the provider (in this case, browserid.org) using Google's open source libraries or any other way, I'd say this is a huge net plus. After all, logging in via Google, Facebook, Twitter or any other such provider has the same weakness.

Click "read only", then paste this into your browser bar and hit enter...

  javascript:(function(){modals = {'showModal' : function(){}};})();

...to be able to try it out without signing into Google or Facebook. Doesn't do anything fancy, just overrides the function responsible for the "Sign up" pop up, and replaces it with an empty function.

Hope this doesn't piss anyone off, just trying to be helpful. Seems like a nice product that people will enjoy thoroughly.

This just hides the sign in modal dialog. Your changes are not saved until you sign in.

It's totally awesome that you're poking around in the code :)

Haha, glad you're ok with that. Just wanted to play with the editor to get my feet wet, figured others might want to do the same.

Yeah great that he's okay with us poking at code that is being downloaded interpreted and run on our own machines(!) j/k ;-)

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