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Oh Mozilla. How I wish that you had finished your BrowserID project! Now we have to trust Facebook with this idea instead of you.

• untothebreach 12y ago
  Well, they do have Persona...if only it was more widely used
  • krenoten 12y ago
    Hopefully with FB investing in this idea, it will spur more conversation that will lead to comparisons with and interest in Persona.
    • shiggerino 12y ago
      These things usually end up doing the opposite. Like when they said they were going to let people use XMPP.
    • acdha 12y ago
      Yeah, Persona is such a simple solution to an annoying problem. I really hope Mozilla makes a second push as I've been enjoying how easily it solves the authentication for small apps.
  • jbk 12y ago
    http://www.computerworld.com/article/2488440/search/mozilla-stops-work-on-persona-sign-on-to-shift-resources-to-firefox-os-services.html http://www.computerworld.com/article/2488440/search/mozilla-...
• buro9 12y ago
  I still use Persona on over 300 sites for 50k+ users. It remains one of the best auth components I've ever used, and I have zero issues from users relating to it. What sucks is that at some point I'll have to remove this great component because they stopped working on it, and will inevitably sunset the hosted service.
  • Tepix 12y ago
    The server service is open source, isn't it? Just run your own. Still a shame they are no longer pushing it, however.
    • buro9 12y ago
      That will suffer bitrot. It will also lead to many people having to maintain something that they were choosing not to maintain. i.e. a complex piece of software responsible for security.
    • vertex-four 12y ago
      > The server service is open source, isn't it? Just run your own. Sort of, ish. The official server includes shims for Google and Yahoo!, so that you can log in to Persona directly through them even though they don't have Persona support directly.
  • duiker101 12y ago
    Where did you find 300 sites that use it? i found very few unfortunately...