Alternative ways to login?

[Reverb]

@Whitewolf , you are trying to avoid datamine yourself by not participating in a social network. Open ID meets that criteria.

[Acry]

Well, you can always sign up with fake information on gmail and what not. I did when I was younger..

[Whitewolf]

My immediate issue is resolved. I went with OpenID. It seemed the least intrusive route to go.

[Erorus]

@Erorus Just out of curiousity, why isn't there a standard username/password method. Not criticizing, just asking for the rationale behind that choice.

I don't have a username and password as an option, because I didn't want the site to become a huge target for hacking. Let's be honest. If I run a site with content from World of Warcraft, and I have user/pass logins and emails, then many people would use the same email/password on the site as they would for battle.net. And I'd hate to be responsible for letting people's WoW accounts get hacked. So, if I don't have any passwords at all, I can't have battle.net login information.

Plus, I don't like how every single site has its own user/pass nowadays, and I don't want to have to deal with users who forget their passwords. In effect, I "outsource" a lot of the account maintenance tasks.