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>>Using a secret link sent to an account's email address as a way to implicitly log in instead of having to remember a password is increasingly common and also
by rypskar 5y ago
>>Using a secret link sent to an account's email address as a way to implicitly log in instead of having to remember a password is increasingly common and also an interesting idea in terms of user experience
The user experience with this is terrible if email is not set up on the device you want to log in from
- Silhouette 5y agoThe user experience of lots of things is terrible if the relevant facilities aren't set up on the device you want to use at the time. It's a curse of our modern, highly-connected and always-online world. You get the same problem with logging into sites that require ID and password from a device that doesn't have your password manager on it. But the fact is, many systems do work like that and many users do prefer it. I'm taking a pragmatic stance here because assuming the messy, unpredictable real world always follows some theoretical standards at a scale of billions of people and millions of organisations is very predictably going to give bad results in a lot of cases.