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What gets me is it's 2012 and we still have to keep solving account management over and over. It's a big bucket of word dealing with multiple signup methods, resetting passwords, profile pictures, etc.

I wish there were an open source project that unified best practices (in various tech stacks).

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Open ID tried and failed. What I see now is more developers creating their own registration auth. Even if they lose on signup conversions vs. 1-click Fb or Twitter, they avoid duplicate account mixups.

Most of the discussions on HN surrounding privacy and FB usually have several mentions of a creation of a 2nd acct (as you've seen), but also mention Mozilla's BrowserID project: https://browserid.org/

Why OpenID failed? I see more and more services - including ones I use literally every day - using it.

Having to deal with registration and account management is a choice, not a necessity. From bugmenot to mytrashmail, examples of websites not having to solve account management are numerous.

The registration is often a barrier preventing people from using your service, and it's not even mandatory to have user management [1].

[1]: https://jobpoacher.com/blog/blog/2012/02/13/what-craigslist-...

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