23 replies to this topic

[Mike.Dailly]

Okay... here's the deal. We've had lots of issues with people not being able to login, and as closely as I can tell, it's something to do with the Facebook integration. So... here's the question, who actively uses this feature?

if you do, it'll need to stay (or we'll need to migrate uses over), if not... then it can probably be removed and save a lot of admin for us.

So please select an option and let me know how you login to the GMC.


Thanks,
Mike

[DJ Vinyl Scratch]

I don't have Facebook, so I voted for no.

[kburkhart84]

I know there are a few users who used the facebook login, but plenty of them requested to change their username. I'm not sure if that has anything to do with it. I personally never use my facebook on any websites, preferring to keep things separate, so that if something happens to one, nothing happens to the others.

If it is causing admin headaches, I'd recommend you remove it. I'm sure they appreciate your putting the poll up, but in the end it is the admins that are suffering, and the facebook login isn't necessary, rather it is a slight convenience for users. I think the far thing to do it remove, after putting an announcement for a couple of weeks. You could also have a pinned topic at the top of community for several months after, so that those "stragglers" that didn't see the message in the couple of weeks(those few that simply don't log on that often) have some sort of way to know what happened. Really, it doesn't take much effort to sign up for a forum, and it of course isn't costing anything, but it IS costing you as admins....

[Southman]

I used Facebook login, but when I got my username changed, I couldn't log in anymore using Facebook connect. I can still log in normally.
Also, I can't add Facebook connect to my account now.

[Jobo]

Facebook is unnecessary if it's causing you problems.
A minority is using it, and there's absolutely no actual need for it.

[cantavanda]

Who uses this feature?

No one

[Mike.Dailly]

The problem is, if a large number use it, then changing them might be too time consuming. Have a "few" use it isn't a problem, they can easily be manually changed.

But I needs to know the numbers

[beatson]

I didn't even realise there was an option to log in with facebook... not that I'd use it like.

[Mercerenies]

I didn't even realise there was an option to log in with facebook... not that I'd use it like.

Same.

23 vote no and 2 vote yes. I'm detecting a pattern here...

[Jobo]

The problem is, if a large number use it, then changing them might be too time consuming. Have a "few" use it isn't a problem, they can easily be manually changed.

But I needs to know the numbers

Sounds like a good way to punish Nocturne for locking so many topics

[TeamSteeve]

Just a thought, if the people who do log in with facebook are having problems logging in, then isn't it likely that they won't be on here to vote that they do log in with facebook...

[True Valhalla]

I don't think it was an option when I joined. I don't tie my Facebook account to many things anyway. If I was a new user joining the GMC I'd probably sign in with Twitter, though.

[ramses12]

People will still want their "personal photo" or whatever. Of course, I couldn't care less about Facebook.

[roytheshort]

RC linked his twitter to his GMC account...

[Terrified Virus]

Nah, I don't want a bunch of random people seeing my FB profile, and I wasn't even aware that there was one, until just a few days ago

[Exkakx]

Who uses this feature?

NOBODY.

[@Alex@]

6.1% of poll takers use it which if you could take that as percentage of total users would be 11146 which is fair number. Of course you can't just do this since it isn't quite that simple the number of nonpoll taker members may be disproportional to the poll taker's split.

[Jobo]

85 members is far from enough to usefully represent a group of ~118.000 members.
There's no way one could legitimately consider this a representative survey, and doing so would be embarrassing at best.

Now, it's important to state that I'm not saying there's not 11.146 members using Facebook-login, I'm merely saying it's too unrepresentative to say there is.

[Manuel777]

I always had the idea that only guests uses it..

[Dangerous_Dave]

I always had the idea that only guests uses it..

A 'guest' is someone who is viewing the forum, but is not logged in.