atopal:
Thanks for starting the discussion here. We also discussed it
briefly in our dev meeting earlier today. At this point we have no
plans to integrate other authentication systems. It’s not clear
that the added overhead and complexity stands in any relation to
the perceived benefit. It’ also partially motivated by our
integration with Github that we’d like to explore further this year
and next. Adding other authentication methods would make that more
complicated, so we’d need a compelling reason to
still pursue that.
A compelling reason? How about this:
MS is part of Big Data and dreaded - to put it mildly - by many
in the free software world.
MS also feels at liberty to violently change their policies at
any time without prior notice and might - like others already do -
deplatform their own customers for somewhat
less than compelling reasons.
Many free software advocates clearly feel uneasy and
uncomfortable with having to accept Microsoft
rules (being the only one option) if they want to
help out MDN and be at the mercy of a large corporation whose
policies in other fields they utterly dislike.