Selector box for popular OpenID providers

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Title:
Selector box for popular OpenID providers

Area:
OpenID, user interface

Summary:
In the OpenID account creation process, and possibly also the OpenID login process, include suggestions of popular OpenID providers. A common form of this is a box with the icons and names of popular providers. The user picks one, it fills in the format of that site's OpenID URL, and the user fills in their username there. Then validation proceeds as normal.

Description:
If you don't know what OpenID is, it's easier to pick from a list of suggestions a provider that you have, rather than going through places you've got accounts with and trying to see whether any of them might have OpenID. It seems to be a common plugin for WordPress and wikis.

We might want to customize it by researching which other OpenID providers our existing users use themselves and have friends at, and having those added or moved into prominence -- or perhaps make sure that every place that someone can import a journal from is visible there.

Poll #4953 Selector box for popular OpenID providers

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 57

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Should be implemented as-is.
39 (68.4%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
2 (3.5%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
3 (5.3%)

(I have no opinion)
13 (22.8%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)