GitHub Login on Parse.com

GitHub Login on Parse.com(blog.parse.com)

25 points by cyen 13 years ago | 7 comments

cmwelsh 13 years ago |

It's always smart to assign a password to your account. Github was down just the other day. Keep a password assigned to your account just in case. By the way, I think github is a great single sign on for hacker related services. People who use parse are usually already logged in on GitHub... Right?

latchkey 13 years ago |

Implementing GitHub login is no more valuable than offering Facebook login. It ties things to a single identity provider and limits the number of people who can use it (ie: no FB/GH account, no ability to use it).

Why not implement Mozilla Persona instead?

Narkov 13 years ago | |

Obligatory XKCD comic:

http://xkcd.com/927/

latchkey 13 years ago | | |

i heart xkcd.

artursapek 13 years ago | |

Because what the hell is Mozilla Persona? The Parse user base and the GitHub user base overlap a lot.

callahad 13 years ago | | |

Arguably, Persona and Parse more than overlap: the supported user base of Persona is a proper superset of Parse's actual and potential user bases. :)

Persona works with any email address, and it's completely decentralized (albeit with a temporary, centralized fallback for bootstrapping)

latchkey 13 years ago | | |

It doesn't matter really what 'Mozilla Persona' is. All that matters is that instead of implementing GitHub login, which is a single identity provider, sites should focus on implementing a global solution to login now that a viable one is available.

The general concept here is that the user just needs an email address and a password to login to any site. I'm tired of having to remember a bunch of usernames and passwords, aren't you?