I get what you mean, but modern Oauth2 login flows for forums allow you to link accounts to services you use anyways and thus are pretty much two clicks with no passwords involved sign-ups.
True, but unfortunately it’s not widely used on fedi platforms. And I think Gitea is the only fedi Oauth provider?
Funnily enough, I felt nostalgic for phpBB and decided to look up how older forums are doing. None of the major players have apps or apps that seem to work. Tapatalk’s reviews paint it as advertising hell. Lack of mobile support seems like a big hindrance to adoption.
Discourse and Flarum are good mobile ready open-source forums.
Open-source Oauth providers are not that common, but Gitlab and Gitea have it and Nextcloud also but it is a bit buggy. There are also some stand-alone implementations that can be linked to OpenLDAP or a SQL database. But IMHO that kinda defeats the purpose I outlined above as rarely do you already have an account with a related open-source service. Thus you need to create an account anyways.
However I think Fediverse platforms could very well offer more Oauth2 login buttons with popular commercial services and as long as it is purely optional I don’t really see a problem with that.
I get what you mean, but modern Oauth2 login flows for forums allow you to link accounts to services you use anyways and thus are pretty much two clicks with no passwords involved sign-ups.
True, but unfortunately it’s not widely used on fedi platforms. And I think Gitea is the only fedi Oauth provider?
Funnily enough, I felt nostalgic for phpBB and decided to look up how older forums are doing. None of the major players have apps or apps that seem to work. Tapatalk’s reviews paint it as advertising hell. Lack of mobile support seems like a big hindrance to adoption.
Discourse and Flarum are good mobile ready open-source forums.
Open-source Oauth providers are not that common, but Gitlab and Gitea have it and Nextcloud also but it is a bit buggy. There are also some stand-alone implementations that can be linked to OpenLDAP or a SQL database. But IMHO that kinda defeats the purpose I outlined above as rarely do you already have an account with a related open-source service. Thus you need to create an account anyways.
However I think Fediverse platforms could very well offer more Oauth2 login buttons with popular commercial services and as long as it is purely optional I don’t really see a problem with that.