Ask HN: Did opeid run out of steam?

2 points by ittan ↗ HN
Did openid run out of steam? If so: 1. what were the lessons learnt? 2. What were the successful features? 3. What should openid have been?

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What's wrong with OpenID? We just implemented it on our new site and it works just great.

I suspect that many start=up sites just fail to notice it or feel they want more information about a user than they are guaranteed by the OpenID process. We request a new user's email address but can manage just fine without it - we also provide a user profile page where users can opt to add more details about themselves to "fill in the blanks".

There is nothing wrong with openID. just that it has not taken off on a large scale as one would want. I suspect OAUTH to have become more prevalent.
I can see OAUTH working for apps/mashups - but not sure how that goes for humans.
The lesson learned is that even very technical folk do not understand "logging in with a URL".