Why do you want this? You didn't state any arguments.

Lundin‭ with all due respect, I don't have to argue any argument on the matter... I don't want to discuss it, it's just something I would want to do. For me, if this feature will be added, it's good, if not, it's also good.

"What's the point?" was also my first thought. You, or any one user, just wanting a feature isn't a justification for spending volunteer time implementing it. You're the one that wants the feature, so you need to provide some arguments as to why this feature would be beneficial to Codidact as a whole. Currently, I don't see any. In fact, it seems it would add confusion and hassle to the sign up process.

I remember what a pain it was when you couldn't just sign up for SE, you had to create some silly third-party account first. I think it was called "Gravator" or something. It was supposed to be yet another universal login, but SE was the only place this Gravator was ever useful.

Personally I want separate accounts everywhere. It makes signing up easy, and if one is compromised, all the others don't fall like dominos.

Also we might not want to have private companies like Google tracking our users and their activity for unknown purposes. That would be an argument against such a feature. Before you know it they will make an association between the Codidact user, your gmail account, your search history, your Youtube activity and so on. Codidact users might wish to stay anonymous, at least to the public eye.

As I've said, I might not be the only one; I don't know of any rule obligating a user to present arguments for a suggestion (although I do see the communal rationale in doing so).

I seek to use less passwords than I currently use and for me personally it would be comfortable and not a great risk to merge my Codidact account with my Google account to get one password less.

Of course, for some other accounts (such as my bank's application) I would still use a standalone account not associated with Google but for Codidact I don't find why it should be a problem, not if the community allows people to choose if they want to merge or not.

If it's just about not having to remember another password, you can use the same password on your Google and Codidact accounts. That's no less secure than having them be the same account.

Olin Lathrop‭ I don't think it's the same because if Codidact is cracked and my password is found, the cracker could then crack my Google account which I use to login to different websites.

deleted user Common sense: if you don't present any arguments then why would one of our non-paid volunteer devs prioritize this request? You end up at the very bottom of the pile of all feature requests.

The argument for this feature is that it is a convenience for some people. If it could be optional, like some sites offer a choice between Google and Facebook, and we could do Google, Facebook and Codidact, each user could choose their own preference.

The argument against this is the coding labor to keep up two or three login systems.