Login with facebook/twitter/google, etc. - does anyone do it?

[jauburn]

Having or "log in with" buttons on forums has become mandatory for forum developers, but do users users actually use these methods of registering or logging in? I don't think any of the users of the two forums I've run cared about these. And I'm not sure that any used them. Is there a way to find out?

 

[Paul B]

You can check the xf_user_external_auth table in the database.

Quite a lot of the members in my forum use all three.

If you post links on Twitter for example, people clicking those will inevitably log in/register via Twitter.

 

[jauburn]

You can check the xf_user_external_auth table in the database.

I just looked in that table and didn't see anything. Maybe I'm doing it wrong.

 

[Paul B]

So you don't see anything like this?

 

[jauburn]

So you don't see anything like this?

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Nope. Maybe that's because no one has signed in on my forum from those places?

 

[Paul B]

If the table is empty then yes, that is the case.

 

[FredC]

i dont know, about members but im just starting to make use of them.. But i will say i once accidently deleted the app and disabled facebook registration for a few months before i found and fixed the problem not one single member mentioned a thing and best i can tell is they are heavy facebook users..