3 ms·
> Maybe it's my mother, and she now has to go find where she wrote down her email password because she still can't figure out that 1Password thing I setup for h
by aosaigh 2y ago
> Maybe it's my mother, and she now has to go find where she wrote down her email password because she still can't figure out that 1Password thing I setup for her. Also, she does not have 1Password on this computer (maybe it's a public library).
This is exactly the reason people use magic links - passwords are painful.
I generally don't mind having one or the other, so either password or magic link. What I can't stand is having both in the same login flow:
- Enter your email
- Get sent a magic link
- Open magic link
- Continue and enter your password
- Enter your 2FA as well
- Smash computer
- PaulHoule 2y agoPasswords aren’t painful if you have good tools for them such as password generator/managers, what is painful is all of the sites that break them by making you change your password periodically or requiring particularly obtuse sets of characters or prohibiting certain characters like ‘ or \ (if you have to confess that kind of malpractice just fire your IT already)
- iteria 2y agoI disagree. It's easier to get the non-technical in my life to remember one password than many. And most of them can't even manage that. I too have failed many times with 1password. It's literally one password and they can't remember it. It makes me understand why I keep seeing new email addresses: the moment their phone dies, they are out of luck because they don't remember their email passwords. At least magic link is one less password for them to forget.
- queenkjuul 2y agoAnd when they can't log into the email to get their magic link because they don't know the password? We're just moving the problem