Sign in with Facebook
8We mentioned a while back that we’re dropping support for Amazon and Google signin options. Later this week you’ll only be able to sign in with your email/username and password or through Facebook.
I already sign in with my email address (or username) and password. What do I do?
Nothing changes for you. You continue to sign in as you did before.
I already sign in with Facebook. Does anything change for me?
Nope, not really.
The next time you sign in through Facebook you’ll be asked if you’d like meh.com to receive “your public profile and email address”. You’ve previously approved this through mediocre.com (the parent company running meh.com) so there should be no problems clicking the big, blue “continue” button. You’ll only see this prompt once.
Don’t worry. This doesn’t allow us to post anything to your Facebook account.
I used to sign in with Amazon or Google. What should I do?
The next time you sign in you can quickly create a new password by clicking the “forgot password” link and entering your email address. Takes just a few seconds.
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Thanks for the helpful forgot password video. How many times do I have to repeat those steps before it works?
If I wanted you to post stuff to my FB account, would you?
Asking for a friend.
@KDemo nope. we don’t want to and we don’t even request the required access to allow us to in the future.
@shawn - That’s okay. I - - I mean my friend - doesn’t use it either.
@shawn
@KDemo
What if I want Meh to post stuff to @kdemo’s facebook account? Stuff I come up with? What about that? Can you set that up for me?
@f00l - Here you go. Have at it, whatever is on your mind.
@KDemo chuckle - don’t want THAT in my facebook history. Good thing I wasn’t logged in.
Facebook?! ACK!
@mfladd
http://shirt.woot.com/offers/meh
@narfcake I would very much like to buy one of these.
@shawn Sold out, alas.
@narfcake This should be a shirt, if it hasn’t been made already.
@shawn I have one in pretty good condition. It’s either 1XL or 2XL if you’d be interested.
@shawn What size? I might have an extra one I can part with.
@magic_cave This was one of a handful of designs in which perpetual printing rights were not granted to Woot.
Wow, @narfcake. If there isn’t a t shirt branch of the Smithsonian yet, I’m thinking you should start one.
@narfcake That is the design that I like! I really want one, but I would need a mens large.
Facebook?
They can have my broadsword when they pry it from my cold dead hand.
/giphy broadsword
I log into exactly zero third party sites via Facebook, Google, or Amazon. At least to the best of my awareness.
Nope. Not gonna do it.
However, I might have heard of folks who have a second FB account and use it to anonymize posts on sites that stupidly insist on posting via FB credentials rather than Disqus.
@RedOak As long as the permissions are something like “know who you are” or “see your profile” and not “can post on your behalf” i’ll sign in via FB or Google. But then, I don’t have anything about my likes/preferences they could see that I feel like hiding.
I also sign in to lots of things with github, as long as they don’t ask for access to private repos.
@katylava
For me isn’t so much about “hiding” as it is basic privacy. Like closing the drapes on your house when the sun goes down. If we’re “hiding” when we close the drapes, so be it.
@RedOak
I use google creds to log into Google and its many projects.
Amazon creds to login to Amazon and subsidiaries.
FB creds to log into FB.
I do not ever log into FB using a browser that is used for anything else. I login to FB only on a clean phone or a phone that allows the FB app very limited permissions (like no access to GPS or contacts, for starters)
If some site wants people to comment FB credentials, they don’t want me to visit their site.
When not using a full browser, I use some extension or other to disable the FB icons that are everywhere.
Use FB for family stuff, don’t love it tho.
@f00l yep, each environment lives within its borders.
I use a “real” FB profile for remotely located friends and family.
And a “commercial” fake FB profile (sperate browser) as a feed of various industry specific interests. Used to use Twitter that way.
You could be a trend setter meh…
You could ask people to sign in with their MySpace account
How do I add my google account to my facebook one
@legendornothing
GGL + FB = paiE:b;IUHIU;oihwenmroIUOWE23eee9832n&JKJHJ;ig;oIi4j5t[wo49
Do it like that.
When I click the meh button or try to add a comment while not logged in, it opens the mediocre sign-in page instead of the meh login. After signing in, it goes back to the page I was at, but still doesn’t have me logged into meh. I have to click on the My Account link to get the meh login prompt. What the hell, @shawn?
@medz thanks for the report. we’ll look into it.
@shawn Seems fixed now.
/giphy shrugs
@shawn Morningsave is doing it now when I click on “Your Orders” (brings up mediocre login and doesn’t log me into morningsave) When I click “Your Account”, however, I get the correct login page. Maybe it has to do with using Chrome in incognito mode…
@medz You’re just a troublemaker.
@shawn and…morningsave is now working fine…super strange. Something is causing it to pull up the mediocre login…I wouldn’t think it would be the lack of cookies on my browser or whatever…
@medz it’s not you. it was us. we were deploying a fix right when you originally noticed this issue. nothing gets past you, does it?
@shawn
@medz didn’t look out the window an hour ago, so something unique was missed.
@PlacidPenguin I miss most things, actually.
@medz @shawn
And for those of you who stay logged in here… in the changeover if you get logged out, don’t forget your meh button click won’t “stick” if you clicked on it logged out. Has happened to me several times when meh screws with things and a side effect is having to log back in again.
@Kidsandliz
Give me your password so that in case of changes, I could verify that your clicks go through.
@Kidsandliz if you click on the meh button while logged out it takes you to the log in page.
I was wondering why i couldn’t sign in with google. is this just a money grab??? I know facebook offers money for exclusives, does this mean I will now shop elsewhere…yes.
@2meh
/giphy bye
@2meh you can still login with your meh username so you don’t have to use facebook
@2meh so you don’t want meh to make money? I’m confused.
Just sign in with your username.
You apparently did mention it, in passing, in a place where it was sure to be missed by most people. Nice basement posting there, Meh.
In the future, kindly make a note when we log in, and/or at least send us an email before you do something like this again, preferably BEFORE it causes problems!
So what about AOL?
@cranky1950
AOL is cranky