It’s shocking just how fast things change on the web. Just today i was introduced to a brand new concept of user management called, “Open-id”. The basic idea of open-id is fairly simple (Alcutally i had thought about making something like this years back but was discouraged by friends…). User signs up for a open-id account from various sites such as https://www.myopenid.com/. Now they may log-in into any site on the web accepting open-id’s without having to register! Its brilliant.

As we speak i am figuring out a way that i can implement this onto darknesfallz, and allow users to post using their open-id. If you notice any errors on the page, or something like that don’t be freaked out, its just me working on the script

Update:

My friend has advised me not to use openid at the moment as it poses a huge security flaw and in many ways he is right. The goal for Openid as i stated is to have a common user/password for all the websites you regularly visit. Now get this. What is someone manages to get into your openid account? Now that person has access to all the sites that you possibly use and can potentially cause huge amount of damage. Password leakages are not rare and even large companies like valve had been a victim of them!

Just a thought.

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