This is clearly a Worse is Better solution. Where the "worse" is the complicated and often not user-visible process involved in getting the login email to them in a timely manner.
That said, I implemented it a while ago, since there's no widely deployed distributed alternative, and as seen with OpenID, attempts to create one will be frustrated by entrenched interests and technical debt.
I still think that Mozilla could have gotten around that problem with Persona if they had built it right into the browser. Pity.
That said, I implemented it a while ago, since there's no widely deployed distributed alternative, and as seen with OpenID, attempts to create one will be frustrated by entrenched interests and technical debt.
I still think that Mozilla could have gotten around that problem with Persona if they had built it right into the browser. Pity.