Providers

[Carlgo11]

Hi everybody!

I think the provider category is rather inefficient.
Some of the providers only support a one/a few site(s), like SAT Mobile ID & Totp.Me, while some support almost every site listed on 2fa.org, like Google Authenticator & Authy.
It's not user friendly since they can't know if the provider will work for the site they want to add two factor authentication on.

Any ideas on what we could do to improve this?

[smholloway]

When I created the provider page I thought of it as a page for developers. Where twofactorauth.org is for end-users looking for sites offering 2FA, twofactorauth.org/providers is for developers looking for a 2FA solution to implement. It was also a good way to move past discussions about which providers should be represented on the main page.

...while some support almost every site listed on 2fa.org...

Many of the providers implement the HOTP and TOTP standards, so they would also support almost every site listed. I think it's a sad state of affairs when the majority of sites don't offer 2FA and those that do use a system that is decades old.

Deciding which providers should be listed is no fun*. I say list the providers who want to be listed and let developers choose the best solution for themselves. A couple exceptions: if a provider is not secure or is not truly a secondary factor, it should not be listed.

*As a Toopher employee it would serve my interest if only the novel, modern providers were listed--skip the amateur me-too OATH OTP generators. But that's not fair, and deciding who makes the cut would lead to more contentious debate.

[jamcat22]

The providers page is being removed. You can read more about it on #1177.