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You can't anymore. There was a post a few months ago that you should set a password on the site itself to be able to continue to log on in the future (future being now, since a couple of days or maybe even weeks already).


I'm glad I saw this, because I didn't have an email or password set up.

In the future, when a major feature like this is removed, it would be nice to see a banner across the top for people who will be affected.


I'm curious why they removed openid. This is relevant to a project I'm working on.. are there good reasons not to offer that as a sign-in option?

What are considered current "best practices" in building an account system?


Here's the initial thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3618082

My impression was it was more a feature of clickpass's implementation being outdated and requiring maintenance than OpenID not being useful, although there was sentiment that OpenID never gained enough traction and isn't the future anymore.




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