OAUTH in metabrainz

endurance21 · February 21, 2020, 10:31pm

We can use OAUTH with
Facebook
Google
Github
Etc…to login to our projects.
This will not only ease the process of authentication but also will provide a way to avoid redundancy of user’ info across different platforms…

Everyone please present your perspectives regarding this…

InvisibleMan78 · February 21, 2020, 10:59pm

@endurance21
What do you think about Eran Hammers article:

and the controversy

For those interested in technical background informations:

jesus2099 · February 21, 2020, 11:15pm

FWIW, MusicBrainz does use OAuth, see https://musicbrainz.org/account/applications.

endurance21 · February 21, 2020, 11:22pm

@jesus2099
You are right, but that’s not I am talking about.
Here musicbrainz is responsible for giving data to other sites…
While In my case it is facebook, Amazon, Github that will be responsible for giving users data to MusicBainz

endurance21 · February 24, 2020, 9:14am

@mr_monkey
Please review this, as you get time

mr_monkey · February 28, 2020, 2:17pm

I’m not sure what you are suggesting here. A way to login using external auth providers?
I’m not sure what that would give use that we don’t already have.

endurance21 · February 28, 2020, 2:48pm

Hey! @mr_monkey
I meant ‘login using external Auth providers’
Login using Facebook, Google, etc.
User don’t have to fill their same details, that is already their on one of Auth provider. It will also save time of user and hence improve user experience.