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No. They work pretty much the same, except Portier is stateless, and Personal needed you to create an account before use, which was unnecessary. Persona also ha

by fiatjaf 10y ago

No. They work pretty much the same, except Portier is stateless, and Personal needed you to create an account before use, which was unnecessary. Persona also had special handling for Gmail. Portier will probably add more "special handling" cases in the near future.

onli 10y ago
> Portier will probably add more "special handling" cases in the near future. We certainly currently intent to.
WorldMaker 10y ago
Persona only required you to create an account if your email provider didn't support it (or your custom domain doesn't delegate it) or they didn't have special handling for your email provider. There was a bunch of confusion about this early on because a lot of potential early adopters were generally geeks like us who have our own email domains and didn't automatically fall into the special handling (which Persona supported Gmail and Yahoo, which remain the two largest email domains).
- callahad 10y ago
  Technically, you always created an account when you used Persona. Sometimes with a password, sometimes without. Sometimes old passwords would come back to haunt you if your domain added and then removed support for BrowserID. Sometimes you would accidentally set up two accounts, because you added a new address to the Persona UI in the wrong order. Sometimes addresses would mysteriously bounce between Persona accounts, because we updated the address/account association on each use. Sometimes you needed a password and sometimes you didn't for the same address, because we supported un-decentralizing Persona on a per-website basis. ...the account story in Persona was way more complicated than it should have been, mainly stemming from the notion that per-login email confirmation loops were too onerous to be viable, and from the idea that users wouldn't succeed with Persona unless it remembered and displayed all of their email addresses in a consistent, persisted account chooser.

by fiatjaf 10y ago

onli 10y ago

> Portier will probably add more "special handling" cases in the near future. We certainly currently intent to.

WorldMaker 10y ago

Persona only required you to create an account if your email provider didn't support it (or your custom domain doesn't delegate it) or they didn't have special handling for your email provider. There was a bunch of confusion about this early on because a lot of potential early adopters were generally geeks like us who have our own email domains and didn't automatically fall into the special handling (which Persona supported Gmail and Yahoo, which remain the two largest email domains).

callahad 10y ago
Technically, you always created an account when you used Persona. Sometimes with a password, sometimes without. Sometimes old passwords would come back to haunt you if your domain added and then removed support for BrowserID. Sometimes you would accidentally set up two accounts, because you added a new address to the Persona UI in the wrong order. Sometimes addresses would mysteriously bounce between Persona accounts, because we updated the address/account association on each use. Sometimes you needed a password and sometimes you didn't for the same address, because we supported un-decentralizing Persona on a per-website basis. ...the account story in Persona was way more complicated than it should have been, mainly stemming from the notion that per-login email confirmation loops were too onerous to be viable, and from the idea that users wouldn't succeed with Persona unless it remembered and displayed all of their email addresses in a consistent, persisted account chooser.