Currently - no.
In YaBB 3 they have been working on getting OpenID working - but so far that's just for login, not registration.

Besides,
1) if people are too lazy to register, then they're too lazy to post.
2) spammers have Facebook accounts, too - lots of them.
3) using Facebook as your registration mode would defeat whatever anti-spam mods you have (refer to 2).

I feel its an essential feature,.. FB has its own anti-spam features (disallowing multiple automated registrations etc), so I doubt it will ever become a major source of spam.

I'm active on many forums, with a post count collectively exceeding 30,000 at the moment... but I clicked a link to a new forum today, a simple "post your name to be in with a chance to win this prize" - genuine prize from a company I deal with - worth $1000 - useful to my business ----- I didn't post on the thread because I couldn't be arsed to sign up!!

FB connectivity should be top priority!!

On another note - is YaBB 3 still being developed? The section of the forum dedicated to it seems dead??

Njones - I would say 'stay tuned' as things are in the works (literally)

As for FB logins - that would require an adaptation to something "like" OpenID.  It would also require a lot of work in the way YaBB operates. YaBB has 'classes' of members, so there would have to be a substitution/equivalence of some field to an underlying Facebook account.

It is certainly an 'interesting' idea.

Dandello wrote on Jul 16^th, 2012 at 7:15pm:



I'd definitely not want a FB link to be the only method of registration/login - it should be an option, but the legacy methods should still remain in place. 

xnoddyx wrote on Jul 16^th, 2012 at 6:24pm:



The last post on that entire forum was 2 1/2 weeks ago - it was a question - it wasn't answered!!

I know a lot of hard unpaid work goes into YaBB - but if the project is in danger of stalling perhaps it is time to re-consider paying the people who make it happen. A small licensing fee would meet very little resistance considering the features & performance YaBB offers,.. I'd be happy to pay anyway!

JonB wrote on Jul 16^th, 2012 at 6:51pm:

my understanding of the facebook sing up, login api is at minimum it lets you pull in the members  name email but you can also pull in the users set ID d.o.b gender and the users set ID/Username for me it is xnoddyx1 or in the url its http://www.facebook.com/xnoddyx1

so say yabb had facebook login it will work like this user visits the forum  and clicks sing up with facebook login the forum then reqests "members name set ID/Username email" then the forum redirects to the facebook confirmation screen user click acceptance facebook then sends the forum the info yabb now sends the user the forum cookies and thats it and any time they come back and clicks login the forum pops up a login box with the norm login info and one for facebook
find some more info here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10309027/sign-in-sign-up-with-facebook-test-u... hope this helps any one looking into this

Dandello wrote on Jul 16^th, 2012 at 7:15pm:


no as far as i know facebook dont support OpenID

Dandello wrote on Jul 16^th, 2012 at 7:15pm:


no not a requirement to have a Facebook account just add an extra way to sign up.

Dandello wrote on Jul 16^th, 2012 at 7:15pm:


im shore at the point of  sign up you can check the users facebook email address the one for loging in that is retrieved when facebook then sends the forum the info and check it against banned emails just the same as yabb works just now and with some of the anti spam mods i dont think this will be any more of a prob for yabb than what it is the now.

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