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Answers.com Now Only With Facebook and Own Login

Posted by timothy on from the you-haff-been-assimilated dept.

CptnHarlock writes "Today the registered users of Answers.com received an email informing them that the site has ended support for Yahoo, Twitter, Google, or LinkedIn as a way to sign into their site. Facebook is the sole external way left to log in. A local login and password were generated and sent by email and the old (non-Facebook) logins deactivated. Score another one for Facebook.com in the login consolidation wars."

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  1. Alternatives to S-ex Change and Stack Overflow by tepples · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    A lot of people appear to have replaced Expert S-ex Change with Stack Overflow and the other Stack Exchange sites. So when "lrn2google" fails me due to the synonym problem, and I have a question about a topic not covered by one of the Stack Exchange sites, which general question-and-answer forum do you recommend?