New: Log in with your Facebook account

[joem]

Now you can log into our forums with your Facebook account (if you have a facebook account).

If you have any problems or questions about this functionality, ask 'em here.

-Joe

[NWBroncoFan]

cool Joe, I think I will try it.

[Oroboros]

One little caveat if you're linking an existing Denver Post forums account. I tried unsuccessfully a half-dozen times. At the end of the link process after entering your Denver Post credentials and you see the "Your login was successful" page, there's an auto-refresh "in a few seconds" that seems to be mandatory to finally complete the linking process. I'm in the habit of immediately clicking away once I see the login was successful, and hadn't let that page refresh itself.

[Charm]

Ok I give up. Where is the form to post this week's Haiku (The Oscars). You don't make it easy.

[Charm]

Where is the Haiku form for this week? Skyscrapers?

[KarlQ]

Whenever I am tempted to login with my Facebook account to your or other websites, I always get COLD FEET when the message comes up indicating I am sharing my Friends list ("and everything else I've made public") with your or some other site!

Why? I am worried you will send invitations to all my friends to visit your site!

No WAY will I use Facebook to login if THAT is what is going on.

Suggestion: If you do want us to sign in via Facebook, TELL FACEBOOK that you want them to ONLY identify me uniquely and accountably, but NOT SHARE my info!

That change will probably double or triple the number of Facebook users that log in to the Post that way!

And a funny: In order to send you this message, I had to register and activiate my account. So NOW I don't need to login via Facebook after all!

Suggestion 2: if you want us to comment on logging in via Facebook, let us comment without logging in! Avoid the chicken and egg problem!

[KarlQ]

Joe....

A third and final suggestion:

Many websites allow login via an array of other password protected sites: Gmail, Live, Yahoo, etc. I recommend you do the same with your site.

I actually have a Yahoo! login that I use ONLY for quick logins when posting comments on the web. It in no way traces back to me since the login is free. I never use the account for mail or any other prupose. In this way my true identity is less likely to be stolen.

This, of course, begs the question: If I can do this, why bother requiring a login anyway?

But I will let you talk this over with your own security gurus. Please post the answer. I would really like to know if I am playing it safe of simply being paranoid. Worse.... am I being a bad citizen of the net if I post opinions I am not prepared to stake my bank account on (e.g. my true identity) ????

Good luck administering this brave new world.