Now Available: Commenting with OpenID

OpenID is an open, decentralized standard for user authentication and access control, allowing users to log onto many services with the same digital identity.

Similar to our support for Facebook Connect, & Twitter Sign-in. OpenID makes it easier and quicker for people to jump into a discussion. To enable Open ID, publishers should proceed to Admin/Settings and enable the feature under Options.

For commenters, just look for the OpenID Sign-in button on sites that have this enabled.

Cheers,

Giannii
DISQUS
Community Manager
giannii@disqus.com

Giannii on July 7th 2009 in disqus

  • Now all we need is Friend Connect support and syncing comments with Blogger.
  • Good.
  • valums
    Testing this disqus commenting system.
  • Sweet !
  • Great!
  • Awesome! I just stopped by to see if there was any progress on OpenID and sure enough, here it is. Thank you
  • Good job!! I just applied my blog comment system of disqus. :)
  • Just.
    Great!
  • This is awesome.
  • nov
    Great!
    I hope you support Y!(US) Y!(Japan) and Google OpenID login button, so that it will be more user-friendly.
    Plus, if you require display name and avatar "after" logged in, it will be better ;)
  • Anton Kovalyov
    Right now there is a generic openid implementation. But stay tuned, all those tweaks are going to be out soon.
  • nov
    Cool!
  • thanks for the updates!
  • tag
    @disqus great feature, but I'm having trouble with the openid login at disqus.com. I only seem able to to login on via a comment form (such as this one). Am I missing something? Thanks.
  • What openid provider are you using?

    Giannii
    DISQUS
    Community Manager
    help@disqus.com
    twitter.com/disqus
  • tag
    Giannii, I'm using phpMyID http://siege.org/projects/phpMyID
    I followed Sam Ruby's tutorial http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2007/01/03/Ope... to install this as a standalone server on my site.
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  • Anton Kovalyov
    Currently you can login at disqus.com with your OpenID url only if you used it earlier via Clickpass. We will roll this out for everybody soon but right now you can comment with your OpenID but not login at disqus.com.
  • tag
    Thanks for the response, Anton. I'll look forward to being able to login again at disqus.com using OpenID.
  • Anton Kovalyov
    Wait, were you using OpenID to login before this upgrade? If yes, let me know because you should be able to login with your OpenID URL.
  • tag
    Anton, yes I've always used OpenID with disqus. I can login using this comment form, but I'm having problems with the disqus.com/login

    A couple of screenshots show what I see: http://wordaligned.org/images/disqus-login.png http://wordaligned.org/images/disqus-login-erro...

    Thanks for your help.
  • Anton Kovalyov
    I'll check and fix it tomorrow.
  • Anton Kovalyov
    That was me. So, again, sorry about that. That's definitely some kind of bug, I'll fix it tomorrow.
  • Anton, this is copy of the email I send to you but I see that it pertinent to the facebook/disqus mix-up.

    When I am logged-in into my Facebook account, Disqus loges me into Facebook Connect automatically. This is not the behavior I want. I prefer to comment on Disqus with Discus account. Any recommendations?
  • Anton Kovalyov
    That's how Facebook Connect supposed to work according to their policies. We don't hide login buttons if you are logged in using Facebook Connect so you can just click on the [D|Profile] button and login as a DISQUS user.
  • Got it, thanks, Anton.
  • Nice!
  • This will be a very useful feature indeed.

    Curious though, is everything working as expected with the authentication mechanisms? I only ask because I enabled OpenID as indicated in this post, but trying to use it fails.

    For example:

    1) When I was already logged into my Disqus account, trying to comment with my OpenID would result in what looks like an internal server error (... "That's not supposed to happen" ..., 500)...

    2) When I logged out of my Disqus account, the 500 error went away, but it still shows me commenting as a guest.

    3) In both cases, my OpenID provider shows "Approve for http://disqus.com/".

    ...
    So, either I simply do not understand how it is supposed to work... Or it actually is not working. Hints, suggestions, etc? I'd like to enable this, but does it have problems?
  • But I authenticate with my Disqus credentials upon "Post Comment". Got me. Something seems out of kilter, but I am willing to be wrong...
  • I sent you an email.

    Giannii
    DISQUS
    Community Manager
    help@disqus.com
    http://twitter.com/disqus
  • Anton Kovalyov
    Have you seen the OpenID button while being logged in as a DISQUS user? (I am asking because that was not supposed to happen)
  • Yes, I do see the OpenID button even though I am logged into my account via OpenID. I just tried to log in via my username and password, and it failed for some reason. I'm sure I was typing everything correctly though...
  • Yup, my Disqus login (i.e., username/password) is not working...
  • Anton Kovalyov
    Could you send me (anton@disqus.com) your username and a screenshot of the your 'Post a comment' area? Thanks.
  • Yes, I sent it just now.
  • Awesome!
  • Very impressed with your work!
  • Very impressed, you guys are doing great work. I hope you get adopted by a lot more blogs.
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