Logon to the forum via Spinitron?

🗂 Management
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Naturally we would prefer if Spinitron users could access the forum using their Spinitron login.

There are two ways to do it

  • Single Sign On (SSO) in which you have to log in to Spinitron to use the forum but only users with a Spinitron account can use the forum.

    This is pretty easy to set up and we could have it working fairly quickly. I don’t like this because a lot of providers of tech support that we need to talk to (e.g. web developers, broadcast engineers, automaton software vendors) won’t have Spinitron logins.

  • Access the forum using Spinitron as an external application for login. This is like logging in using a Google or Facebook account.

    This is a fair amount of work (software development, integration and service deployment) that I don’t want to do because we have so much other important work to do.

So for now we don’t have a good option. We can either exclude people without a Spinitron login or divert engineering effort to making Spinitron a 3rd party auth provider.

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I’d prefer to keep them separated, as not all of our station staff need forum login credentials.
This forum seems more geared to admins and developers, not necessarily end users.

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Well, at least now I understand why I had to create a different account to use the forum. Thanks for the clarification. You’ll be hearing from me!