Connected Accounts

[Shawn Gossman]

Do you all allow people to join / login with connected accounts?

This would be like Facebook, X, Google, Apple, etc.

Do you think this is a good way to encourage people to join forums or do you find it to be a hassle?

 

[AWS]

I used too. Now it's just too much hassle to set them up.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

I used too. Now it's just too much hassle to set them up.

That's what I figured. They're always changing the way they do their APIs so you have to keep up with it.

 

[Bawse]

I used too. Now it's just too much hassle to set them up.

That's why I haven't added Facebook login to my forum yet, but I also forgot because I've been working on many other things to improve my forum.

 

[frm]

I used too. Now it's just too much hassle to set them up.

Yeah, as soon as Facebook made you verify company status... I dropped them.

They want to be in every aspect of your life.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

I see XenForo is setup to enable Google and Apple logins.

I wonder if those would be good for encouraging mobile users to register.

 

[Cpvr]

I have facebook and reddit enabled on my forum as connected accounts, so users can join with their accounts from these two platforms if they’d like.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

I have facebook and reddit enabled on my forum as connected accounts, so users can join with their accounts from these two platforms if they’d like.

How much do you have to update the Facebook one?

I'm assuming both use a developer API or something like that?

 

[Tracy]

How much do you have to update the Facebook one?

Late to the party on this... Facebook has made it even more complicated to set them up now and you seem to have to have business info on file with them to use it.
I know that the Xenforo developers have been pressed to update their manual to reflect the new requirements, but I don't think they have as of yet.

It was enough of a hassle that I removed the Facebook login as I don't have a business and have none of the documents that they require to be able to use that ability.
But I do have the ability to log in using the following



Those are also the connected accounts that are listed for the users to configure if they are already members.