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codenerdz on May 5, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Techniques To Simplify Sign-Ups and Log-Ins

Using an Oauth Provider for Signup and Login makes most of these techniques moot. For the service Im working on, im using a wonderful OmniAuth gem that together with Devise allows for easy support of popular OAUTH providers such as Facebook, Twitter, Linked In, Google, you name it. After dealing with forcing users to come up with yet another password to sign up for the service, I prefer that somebody else deals with that and I just store OAUTH tokens

dholowiski on May 5, 2011 [–]

What happens when your oauth provider goes out of business or decides they don't want to offer oath any more and you lose all of your users?

codenerdz on May 5, 2011 | [–]

Ill take the risk of Facebook, Twitter, Linked, Google, etc going out of business before my service does :)

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