OpenID was never intended as general login system. That's just a widespread misattribution. (Which SE has clearly contributed to.)

Shutting it down habitually will have some ripple effects outside of SE/SO however. It's not just Stack-specific bots using the OpenID consumer. Many users here do utilize the OpenID provider too.

• For instance I get most useful flags on //freshcode.club from users with an StackExchange OpenID handle.
• They're not just more frequent than Yahoo logons, but inherently more trustworthy. IMO.

Just measuring active SE logins falls a bit short of its actual impact. Code complexity might not warrant it. But all the maintenance and effort done over the years, wasn't spent on the local scope alone.

OpenID was never intended as a general login system. That's just a widespread misattribution. (Which SE has clearly contributed to.)

Shutting it down habitually will have some ripple effects outside of SE/SO, however. It's not just Stack-specific bots using the OpenID consumer. Many users here do utilize the OpenID provider too.

• For instance I get the most useful flags on //freshcode.club from users with a StackExchange OpenID handle.
• They're not just more frequent than Yahoo logins, but inherently more trustworthy. IMO.

Just measuring active SE logins falls a bit short of its actual impact. Code complexity might not warrant it. But all the maintenance and effort done over the years wasn't spent on the local scope alone.