Launchpad: The forgotten URL
by Mez on Nov.06, 2008, under Personal, Rants
A site I use quite regularly is Stack Overflow – a great, community driven site for programmers.
At this site, you get rep when you post good answers, or good questions, which are voted up by the others on the site.
Imagine my dismay, when, this morning, I tried to login using the normal URL that I use for OpenID logins, only to find that the URL that it is delegated to has changed.
“What does this mean?” I might hear you asking.
Well, it means that anyone who’s using Launchpad as their OpenID Provider (OP) doesn’t have their openID assosciated to them anymore. For me, this means I can no longer access my stackoverflow account and my reputation starts at 1 again.
*sigh* – while I can understand that LP’s OpenID implementation is still in Beta, I don’t expect changes that completely change the way the system works. It’s paramount to going through the system and changing everyone’s username…. 
I’m pretty annoyed at this, and have filed a bug about it.
Edit: It seems they’ve removed the delegation on the pages for users, and This is why it’s happening…
November 6th, 2008 on 9:43 pm
That’s what you get for using a closed source, proprietary solution :p
November 6th, 2008 on 10:47 pm
I have LP as my OpenID provider for SO, and I can still login and use it as normal.
But I have always specified “https://login.launchpad.net” instead of the specific LP user URL.