The Uservoice feedback mechanism doesn’t share authentication with stackoverflow.
IRONICALLY BECAUSE THEY DO NOT SUPPORT OPENID!
Just sayin’. I did vote that request up on http://uservoice.uservoice.com , but who knows when they roll out new features. I haven’t seen a thing change there in months.
i’ve looked into the site yesterday (after Joel’s post) and i think it’s great in MANY MANY ways, but not just for programmers.
I’d love to have the software installed in the company i work for, to have QA for CMM, sales, human resources, etc. For some reason wikis don’t seem to work, but perhaps the reputation/votes will create e better incentive.
The site is great! I’m really surprised. I thought it may not be work but I think it’s doing great and this point system is a very nice way to encourage people to answer and participate.
I’ve one complain. OpenID. It sucks!
A better solution would be to support OpenID for those who love and provide a Register facility for those who don’t mind registering on StackOverflow, like me.
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If Yahoo OpenID sucks so bad then maybe it shouldn’t be in the list of example providers. Out of the example list it was the only one where I already had an account, and was the most recognizable. It worked for me Monday morning, once, and has not worked since then, from home or work. Now I will need to sign up again at another place just to get an OpenID that might work. Maybe myopenid.com is trusted and will work better.
Congratualtions. I have used it to ask a couple of questions and helped others with some feedback. I like the high quality.
However just a caution that the site could suck your time if you’re hooked to collecting badgets, earning reputation, voting up and down on questions and answers stuff… etc.
Just curious, are you planning to make the site’s code open source?
I like the site so far. The downside is that it’s a bit overwhelming. I don’t know how well it’s going to work when I need to find a specific answer.
The only real bug I’ve found is after I login using my Yahoo OpenID and then fill out my profile information and Save it, the profile doesn’t stay saved. My profile information keeps getting lost.
Also on a personal note Jeff, you seem a little hostile to your users about this Yahoo OpenID thing. It may not be your fault but it would behoove you to do all you can to help the users that are having problems.
I’d like to add to the call for fixing the OpenID please.
If I go to sourceforge’s login page and type blog.billpg.me.uk into the box on the right, I’m taken to blogger’s login page. (So I know my OpenId works this far.)
If I do the same on the stackoverflow login, I’m told
The remote name could not be resolved: ‘blog.billpg.me.uk’