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OpenID was previously the main login flow for Stack Exchange; it has since been deprecated, and the endpoints and URL were removed on November 1, 2022.

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What happened to MyOpenID?

We now de-emphasize MyOpenID as a login option due to the large number of problems they've been having lately. You can still sign in with it (provided their end of the bargain works) by typing the UR …
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Why remove myOpenID two weeks before deprecation?

Far as alternatives go, may I suggest our very own Stack Exchange OpenID? …
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Why is Stack Exchange cross site login so flakey?

"Log in with Stack Exchange" is for folks who have created one of our own OpenID accounts. You don't have one of those far as I can tell. … Once you have verified the confirmation email you can avoid the "which OpenID account did I use" confusion and just log in with Stack Exchange every time. …
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Stack Overflow and Facebook Connect

We probably should stop referring to "OpenID" anything altogether since the term tends to just cause varying amounts of confusion among our users. … In the meantime, we don't make any distinction between actual OpenID providers and everything else because the distinction is largely meaningless. …
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Log-in bug with Area 51

If you're running any browser extensions like HTTPS Everywhere, turn them off. Area 51 login doesn't support that sort of forcing of HTTPS. (SSL support is on our list and work continues to make it a …
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Symantec's Personal Identity Portal (PIP) login route will be removed soon

We notified users who had Verisign as their only login credential of the impending shutdown a while back. Now that September 12 has come and gone, I pushed a change to remove it from all login and si …
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Why is log in via Stack Exchange OpenID so complicated?

The email/password fields are the Stack Exchange OpenID credentials. We optimized the UI for the majority of people who neither know nor particularly care about what OpenID is. …
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Where is my beta account?

I'm not turning up any other accounts linked to your current email address or IP. Without at least some information about them (such as which OpenIDs, other emails, or display names you may have used …
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Unable to log in using Chrome after adding another login

Aaaaand.... fixed. The short version of what happened is that because you had two profiles and tried to reuse the credentials from one in another, even though it was deleted, we attempted an account …
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Lost my Stack Overflow account when I trashed my e-mail address

Contact us.
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Unable to add LiveJournal login

Wellll.... that's embarrassing. The page was posting to the wrong route, so naturally nothing worked. A fix is out now, please let me know if you're still seeing issues.
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"Facebook Data Query Failed" error when logging in

We relied on the version of the Facebook API that expired on March 25. The next oldest version changed the response format of the oauth/access_token route from a URL-encoded query string to JSON. I u …
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Removing an old email address login entirely

I removed the disposable credentials from your account and we deleted the Stack Exchange OpenID associated with that disposable address, so you should be all set. …
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Area 51 login failure

I don't have the code in front of me, but I'm pretty sure what you're seeing is just an OpenID login workflow - you authenticate with Stack Exchange Open ID and then it provides your identity to Area 51 …
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Stack Exchange login dialog

I'm not entirely sure what you're asking here, but we have an API that includes a way to sign in to Stack Exchange sites: http://api.stackexchange.com/docs/authentication.
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