Third party login mod (google, yahoo, twitter, soundcloud, etc)

[hugh_]

I believe vbulletin desperately needs improvements to its login and registration system and I would to suggest a mod allowing users to either login using third party credentials like google, twitter, yahoo, soundcloud or the like. It could either connect their credentials to a local vbulletin account (like Facebook connect) or allow them to post as authenticated guests without having to do anything at all where they could start posting immediately...

I did some testing with a Java script commenting system which works similarly and participation levels shot up very significantly, although ultimately the system was detracting from vbulletin and had to be removed. My observation is there appear to be a lot of floating users out there who might participate in our forilums if it were made easier...

Anyway I would like to raise some interest around developing such a mod which I think could really help forum owner capitalize on the popularity of social media...

[hugh_]

Corrected some phone typos and illogicalities.

[ikopylov]

I wrote the following mod
support here:

1. 500px
2. LinkedIn
3. Steam Community
4. AOL
5. Mail.ru
6. Tumblr
7. Facebook
8. Murmur
9. Twitch.tv new
10. FamilySearch
11. MyHeritage
12. Twitter
13. Foursquare
14. MySpace
15. Viadeo
16. Geni
17. Odnoklassniki
18. Vimeo
19. Github
20. OpenID
21. Vkontakte
22. Goodreads
23. Pixnet
24. Windows Live
25. Google
26. Plurk
27. Yahoo
28. Identica
29. QQ
30. Yandex
31. Instagram
32. Sina
33. LastFM
34. Skyrock

[hugh_]

Good list there, thanks. I would focus on the 10 biggest to begin with I think...

[vbnewguy]

Highly agree that a 3rd party login mod is needed. Looking through your code you basically built this system already for Facebook, you just didn't take the additional step of making it easy for there to be OTHER 3rd party logins.

I'm going to join the plethora of other vB users who are hacking a solution to this problem, it seems silly. Add this feature please.

[tbworld]

Originally Posted by vbnewguy

Highly agree that a 3rd party login mod is needed. Looking through your code you basically built this system already for Facebook, you just didn't take the additional step of making it easy for there to be OTHER 3rd party logins.

I'm going to join the plethora of other vB users who are hacking a solution to this problem, it seems silly. Add this feature please.

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