Sign In with Facebook, Google or Discogs

We've made signing in really easy! If you have a Google, Facebook or Discogs account, you can you use that account to sign in into SecondHandSongs. Of course, it's still possible to create a classic and specific SecondHandSongs account.

Existing users can also link their SecondHandSongs account to Google, Facebook or Discogs, by going to their Profile page. Click on the grey "Not Connected" button and the link will be created.

Last edit: 2015-03-28 12:24:38 UTC by Bastien

Jag ger fan i fräsboken och jävla g-skiten (men jag har inget imot skivetc)!

For users signing in and/or registering is not easier than before. Unfortunately, it's just gotten even easier for the main civil/private data collectors to gain even more personal info.

So, now that SHS is chumming up with the (next to the so called intelligence services) worst data krakens: Is there any guarantee that not a single detail of my entire identity and nothing I do on SHS will leak to Fizzbook or any G.com related database??

I do think it's easier for registering: you don't need to confirm by e-mail: you confirm directly in Facebook or Google. This means can immediately interact with the site, without waiting for an email to arrive.

Facebook or Google will only know WHEN you are registering or signing in IF you choose to do so.

Is that OK for you?

If what you are saying is that those two would only grab my data if I sign in via them, I guess that will have to be OK.

Last edit: 2015-03-31 14:20:29 UTC by camembert electrique

The social sign-in is very popular! Since then 52 people registered, of which

• 18 using their Google account
• 26 using their Facebook account
• 1 using their Discogs account
• 7 creating an SHS account the old way

Good news, indeed - if those registrations result in positive impact. I just wonder why 80 % didn't chose to register directly, which is the by far more logical way.

... because signing up via Facebook/Google is less hassle

One fewer password to have to create and remember if Facebook, etc., is chosen. I've noticed with this site that even if I choose to have my password remembered (and I'm registered here the traditional way), it expires from time to time. And then I have to remember if my username is something short like rslitman or if it's my email address, and if it's the latter, which of my multiple email addresses I'm using here. Tonight, I'm here on a new device on which I hadn't visited this site before, so I had to do a full login.

The expiration of your session is a security measure. When you choose "remember", it doesn't save your password, but downloads a cookie that allows you to sign in automatically during 2 or 3 months. since a cookie can be compromised (e.g. You sell/dispose your device without wiping it), it must be deleted or invalid after some time.

The drawback of the social sign in, is that you need to do it each time.

Have you thought of using a password manager?