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Also, OpenID has been removed. How do I login with my Google account?

You can't anymore. There was a post a few months ago that you should set a password on the site itself to be able to continue to log on in the future (future being now, since a couple of days or maybe even weeks already).

I'm glad I saw this, because I didn't have an email or password set up.

In the future, when a major feature like this is removed, it would be nice to see a banner across the top for people who will be affected.

I'm curious why they removed openid. This is relevant to a project I'm working on.. are there good reasons not to offer that as a sign-in option?

What are considered current "best practices" in building an account system?

Here's the initial thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3618082

My impression was it was more a feature of clickpass's implementation being outdated and requiring maintenance than OpenID not being useful, although there was sentiment that OpenID never gained enough traction and isn't the future anymore.

Simple, just do a password reset on your hn username and it forwards to your gmail account

Unless you can't because that box isn't there to do a password reset. Which, btw, is really frustrating as I just had to create a second account to write this. I used to use OpenID and now I can't login to my old account at all.

I had the same experience. Pretty frustrating when you don't know what's going on (I'm a pretty regular visitor and missed the OpenID thread) and then want to comment on something and BAM! You have to create a new account in order to do so.

Maybe a separate page for changes to this site? That way, if someone misses it on the front page, they don't get hung out to dry.

*updated for clarity

I'm surprised that http://ycombinator.com/newsnews.html has not been updated on this important topic. How much would it help, though? There should be an RSS of it.

I almost got locked out when OpenID was removed, but later found accidentally that the logon is case sensitive, and that fixed the issue for me.

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