RPX: OpenID Login Integration

I just saw this posted in vB.com but thought I'd share it here to see what everybody else thinks about it: http://rpxnow.com/

It essentially is login integration of Facebook, Google, MySpace ID, Windows Live ID, Yahoo!, and OpenID.

What are your thoughts?

 

RPX feedback

You can read what others are saying at https://rpxnow.com/testimonials and see some representative deployments at JanRain Blog: RPX Experiencing Rapid Growth Across a Wide Range of Websites

 

For most community managers it would be quite costly. Since most communities require registration to participate, you'll need the account mapping feature, it would cost a minimum of $100.00 a year to integrate this with your community. Since a lot of people don't properly monetize their communities or run them as hobbies, this is a large expense. Concept is good but its geared more towards the larger communities with income rather than the small niche communities. Those will probably still rely on individual addons.

For those individuals who want to maximize the benefits of social networking through this, they will need the "Pro" package while this allows users to announce your site to their friends and eventually publish from your site to the social networking sites of their choice, it comes with a pretty hefty price tag of at least $500 a year.

The basic plan would be enough for a blog comments platform or a site that doesn't really care about gathering demographics. It would still require custom programming on most forum packages to work.

 

Great idea but would love to see vB build these types of features in automatically.

IPB already has a facebook and openID integration ready to go.

 

I agree. I think it's great that IP.Board has these implemented and it's one of the features that attracts my attention.

 

I do not think this should be built in vb it should be an official add-on. Know IB is working on one now and thats good and it should stay that way.

 

Do you mind elaborating as to why? I'm not questioning your view, I'm just curious.

 

Well it might not be an very good reason as why but I just think all the code for that system shouldn't be in the core since alot of people don't wanna use it and I know alot will but myself will never use it because you don't get the members email so they aren't really members.

Also it would not be updated to work with the latest as much if it was in the core.

I have some other reason that I can't really explain I just think this is better left as an add-on.

 

Facebook integration comes as a paid mod for SMF. OpenID is part of SMF 2. I'm unsure how popular they'll be for my users. Personally, I wouldn't use them.

I see one con using such features; if a persons login is stolen, the hacker gets access to several forums if he can figure out where the member has forum accounts.