On 2013-02-23 12:37 AM, "Matthew Flaschen" mflaschen@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 02/22/2013 11:32 PM, Brian Wolff wrote:
What ive always wondered is what happens if your oid provider goes under/otherwise dissapears. I imagine that means you lose your user
account
all across the internet, which is a scary thought
Some sites, like Stack Overflow, allow you to add alternate OpenIDs, which helps for temporary or permanent downtime.
Matt Flaschen
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Presumably you would have to do that before the downtime though as you wouldn't be able to login once downtime starts. So one could easily be caught off guard.
-bawolff