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mozilla / persona-yahoo-bridge

A ProxyIdP service for bridging major IdPs who lack support for the BrowserID protocol.
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Support AOL email addresses #134

Open chemistrydioxide opened 11 years ago

chemistrydioxide commented 11 years ago

AOL is running an OpenID provider. They even support OpenID v1 (not just v2), so there'll be no trouble with users who provide two different email addresses.

callahad commented 11 years ago

I'm really sorry, but I also don't think this makes sense from a marginal utility perspective: last Fall, AOL had around 3 million users. Gmail, Yahoo, and Hotmail each have hundreds of millions of users.

I do appreciate your thoughts -- especially regarding Google Apps for Your Domain, etc., but in this case, I don't think it lines up with BigTent's broader goals.

Generally, the strategy isn't to conquer the world, but rather to lead the way for other domains. Once BigTent is live for those three major providers, we'll hopefully be able to go to companies like AOL and say "look at this -- don't you want to offer that to your users?"

chemistrydioxide commented 11 years ago

You're making a valid point; I wasn't aware that AOL is that much smaller than the top 3 players. However, they are still the fourth largest email provider in the world, so if it was up to me to make the decision, I would set N to 4 or 5.

("Goals: [...] Support only the top N email providers in the world, so users experience a Primary flow" -- README.md)

ozten commented 11 years ago

Thanks @chemistrydioxide, the real goal is to get the aol.com developers to implement the Persona protocol. They could be the first and the biggest, something worth bragging about!

Until then, the roadmap is in place as @callahad said, and we'll consider aol.com once we analyze if the first three are having an impact on getting identity providers to implement Persona, or if we need to add BigTent to more domains.