Google Account appears to be sole log-in method

[n8willis]

Looking at the dot-com site, the beta site, and the various docs, it seems as though a Google Account is the only login method supported. That certainly keeps at least some potential users at bay. If there are alternatives, it would be great to document them. If there aren't any yet, it would be helpful to at least have somewhere to track what would be necessary to plug in another auth method.

[Morgul]

Currently, Google is the only login method. However, we are using passport.js under the hood which means that, theoretically, we could support a wide variety of login.

In practice, we might need to do some database work to store the required information from the various account types, as well as improve the UI. Not huge challenges, but work that needs to be done.

(As far as .com vs the beta site; I need to promote beta to production; the .com site's very long in the tooth at this point. I just haven't sat down to jump through the hoops required to do to upgrade.)

[n8willis]

Haven't looked into that library myself, although I might find a bit of time. As far as hooking login to the internal user schema is concerned, is there anything mandatory other than a working email address?

[Morgul]

Nope. Email's the only mandatory thing.