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Jonta
Jonta
16:28
grumbles a bit
Ah well, should've joined a tiny bit later
Hm, a question I asked on the old UX hasn't been linked to my account.
Is there a way to do this manually?
ChrisF
ChrisF
16:45
@Jonta Did you set up your accounts with the same name, OpenID etc.?
Jonta
Jonta
17:38
@ChrisF: Yep. Seems rcher manually merged them now.
Citing her from IRC: Hmm, give me a few minutes, gonna whip up some code so I can
just give it a username and it'll spit out matches that need to
be fixed.
ChrisF
ChrisF
@Jonta I think there were bound to be exceptions - glad it's sorted for you - and well come to the new ux.stackexchange site!
Rebecca Chernoff
Rebecca Chernoff
For reference, this was because of gmail's poor openid stuff.
SE2.0 has a lot more support for it than 1.0 did.
Jonta
Jonta
Hm, GMail has poor OpenID-support?
And there I was thinking Google did things the right way
Rebecca Chernoff
Rebecca Chernoff
17:55
Stack Overflow Blog: Google Offers Named OpenIDs
Posted by Jeff Atwood on November 25th, 2009

I love Google — and I’m not just saying that because they deliver 90% of our traffic and more than 60% of user OpenIDs, I swear. But I am a little bitter that their OpenID support has two major flaws which cause us a great deal of ongoing pain:

While there is certainly an argument for privacy to be made here, it sure would be nice to have the choice between a random per-site hash OpenID like …

And a stable, readable OpenID like …

Well, the good news is, now you can! Google just gave us a fantastic Thanksgiving Day present in the form of Google Profiles supporting OpenID. And with a Google Profile, you get to pick a named URL of your choice! …


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