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>One of Dave Winer's many handles. (I can never remember my password so I create a different account on every machine I use and stay logged in. Sorry.)

Jeez, give OpenID a try, or use a password manager. Both of which are also significantly more secure options than adding more passwords to your own memory / relying on stale cookies.



OpenID didn't work too well an year ago. I don't remember the details, but it was enough to make me not use it even if I use it whenever I can.


* shrug * it's been working flawlessly for me everywhere I've used it, and it makes the sign-up process easier. The one complaint (and it's a big one) is that it makes it very hard to have multiple OpenID accounts on a site. You have to log out of your "current" one, and into the one you want.

I can see no reason this can't be changed with a plugin, but it's still a PITA.


In case I wasn't clear enough: I didn't like the OpenID implementation from HN. The one from StackOverflow worked fine.




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