I’m in the web development business. I realise fully that consolidating signon stuff is complex and all that but surely, surely, there’s got to be something better than this:
- Clicking a login link on Ubuntu wiki to tend to a page.
- Being told that the “OpenID verification requires that you click this button”
- Being redirected to a form for my username and password.
- Being logged in and reaching the SSO profile page with the list of places I’ve logged in to ever. No indication of a “where you tried to log in to” link.
- Clicking the wiki.ubuntu.com one because that’s where I was trying to get to.
- Getting sent to the front page of wiki.ubuntu.com… logged out.
- Clicking the login link, again.
- Being told that the “OpenID verification requires that you click this button”
- Confirm that the information on the screen is me.
- Getting sent back to the wiki.ubuntu.com front page.
- Now all I have to do is find the page I was trying to edit.
I’m really hoping this was not normal operation, or I that did something wrong.
Is this really what our new contributors face?
Please say no. Pretty please. With a cherry…