In the next release of the FeedLand server software, you will be able to log in using a WordPress account.
A few facts about this new feature.
- It’s not installed yet on either server.
- I want it to (eventually) be the only way to log in to the A8C server.
- On feedland.org it will be an option. Email registration will still work.
- A WordPress-based account uses your WordPress username with a “wp-” added to the beginning to be sure there are no collisions with existing accounts created by email. Both servers need this transition but at some point we’ll decommission the A8C accounts created with email.
- Email addresses must be unique too. I worked around this by changing my WordPress email address to davewiner@gmail.com, which for the purpose of identity is different from dave.winer@gmail.com, yet still represents the same Gmail mailbox.
- I will be wp-scripting on FeedLand because I am scripting on WordPress.
- It’s fewer steps for the users. Choose a command from a menu, you’re taken to wordpress.com and click the button to accept, and are redirected back to FeedLand, logged in. You also don’t have to come up with a screenname, that comes from your WordPress account.
- It has a marketing advantage, less resistance perhaps from WP users, to a service being offered from Automattic. Also coincidentally encourages other developers to use WP login, plants a seed, and perhaps we’ll get storage along with it, and that’ll make lots of new kinds of writing tools to pop up for WordPress. (Something I want to be involved with btw, when it happens, as you can tell.)
I still want to do some tuning up, adding prefs, writing docs, etc before putting the new version on NPM.
PS: I started a thread on this in the new support repo.