Timeline for Authenticate to Stack Exchange using GitHub
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| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
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| Sep 14, 2018 at 12:22 | comment | added | Martin Delille | This new service use github connect: stackshare.io | |
| Jul 7, 2018 at 10:56 | comment | added | Sorin Postelnicu | Now that StackOverflow want to remove support for OpenID, this answer will unfortunately no longer be relevant... :( | |
| Apr 30, 2017 at 8:40 | comment | added | H. Pauwelyn | There are sites that uses GitHub authentication like Code Review and CodePen. So whay would it require resources to make this? | |
| Sep 22, 2016 at 8:44 | comment | added | q9f | I don't see how this answer gets so many upvotes and why this thread is marked as answered and feels like status-declined. Discourse, the little sister of Stack Exchange for example, offers Github authentication by default, and that's just a forum. I don't see why a network with mainly technical and scientific Q&A sites should not offer Github authentication, as so many developers hang around on Github all day long and by any chance pop over to Stackoverflow to get help. | |
| Nov 12, 2013 at 12:24 | comment | added | casperOne Mod |
@skalee Very true, but that's a choice that the SE folk decided to make, presumably in order to reduce friction in logging into not just SO, but all of the Stack Exchange sites, many of which have nothing to do with coding. In providing Facebook as a login provider, they reduce the friction for almost a billion people to access Stack Exchange sites. That said, I'd still push this for Stack Overflow, as it makes perfect sense. Also, the [OAuth token exchange] is simple enough to implement. All that they have to do is ask for the user:email scope so that they can try to sync accounts.
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| Nov 11, 2013 at 14:33 | comment | added | skalee | @casperOne Neither Facebook is openID provider… | |
| Apr 10, 2013 at 11:19 | comment | added | casperOne Mod | @Tracker1 It's still not OpenID, unfortunately. | |
| Apr 10, 2013 at 0:48 | comment | added | Tracker1 | developer.github.com/v3/oauth | |
| Apr 20, 2012 at 3:40 | comment | added | Jeff Atwood | or, OAuth 2.0 which is nearly as convenient. | |
| Apr 19, 2012 at 13:17 | vote | accept | jussinen | ||
| Apr 17, 2012 at 15:33 | history | answered | casperOneMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |