: In addition to the previous poster, you may lose people who are unfamiliar with open id and don't understand the registration process or how it works. When you redirect someone off of your

@XinRu657

In addition to the previous poster, you may lose people who are unfamiliar with open id and don't understand the registration process or how it works. When you redirect someone off of your site and onto a different one, people naturally get a little hesitant, especially if they're entering passwords and creating accounts. Of course, this effect depends on your user base; if you are dealing with grandmas that just want to post pictures of their kittens, don't go with openid, but if your users are at least a little savvy, then OpenID is acceptable.

Additionally, there's no reason you have to give up one. You can let the users choose which one they want to use. Personally, if Facebook were the only option for registration I'd leave the site, so maybe some people feel the same way about OpenID.

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