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What is the difference between MVC5 identity and MVC4 simple membership?

I am building an MVC 5 application and the build in membership function in a basic MVC 5 project is MVC5 Identity. I am familiar to MVC 4 simple membership, but i want to use the new functions of MVC 5. The identity seems a little lean and you have to extend everything. Can you tell me which one is better for application that needs to handle multiple logins - 1k+ and open authentication ?

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  • Can you tell me which one is better for application that needs to handle multiple logins - 1k+ and open authentication ?

    Currently, ASP.Net Identity reaches to Version 2 already, so we can assume that SimpleMembership Provider is deprecated.

    Unfortunately, Identity is not backward compatible with SimpleMembership Provider.

    If you are implementing new Application with MVC 5, you definitely want to use new Identity 2.