The ZYB team is in the process of implementing OpenID right now. It’s working on our development servers and we can both sign in and sign up using OpenID. It will be released very soon. If you don't know what OpenID is, take a look at this short video.

We are doing this for three reasons:

Reason 1. The community

For some time now, the ZYB community has been asking for OpenID login support. Since most of the developers at ZYB use OpenID, we totally understand why you want this on zyb.com. Keep on asking us to implement cool features. The more requests we receive, the higher priority they get on our roadmap. Feature requests can be posted here in the comments.

Reason 2. Data portability

The second reason for implementing OpenID is that it correlates with our efforts in supporting data portability. It’s your data we’re storing, so you should be able to take it with you wherever you go on the web. It’s the same with OpenID. It’s your credentials, so you should be able to use them anywhere.

Reason 3. It's the future

We are very sure that OpenID will be the standard way of authentication on the web in the future. By implementing OpenID we also help speed up the adoption rate and thereby brings the future a little bit closer.

The user experience

When you visit zyb.com and have to sign in, you can either choose to use your existing username/password or sign in using OpenID. The first time you're using OpenID we will ask you whether or not you wish to create a new ZYB account or to assign your OpenID to an existing account. If you wish to do that, then you have to enter your username/password once. Now you are able to use your OpenID to login to your existing account.

If you wish to create a ZYB account you can easily do that without entering your name or e-mail address like you normally would. We retrieve that info automatically from your OpenID provider. This makes it really fast to create a new account and you will be flying in a matter of seconds.