How I Built LoginWithHN

Re:How I Built LoginWithHN by rexreed on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @03:02PM (#30432910)

A good percentage of our outbound emails end up in Spam folders, Promotion inboxes, or heavily delayed. It might be simple to implement send a login link via email and convenient for those when it works, but when it doesn't, it doesn't. So the best is to have traditional passwords and an optional "send me a login link". If they get one of those two working, then great. But you still have to deal with password management / security / reset / etc. Nothing is trouble free.

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Re:How I Built LoginWithHN by jeremyjh on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @04:54PM (#30434444)

Don't you want to validate a new users email address before you activate their account anyway?

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Re:How I Built LoginWithHN by rexreed on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @05:40PM (#30434892)

When the email is not received in the customer inbox, you have a bit of a loop where the customer has a valid email but is not receiving the communication.

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Re:How I Built LoginWithHN by theamk on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @11:47AM (#30443063)

Give the majority of people have working email, how about the other way?

Default "login by email", with optional "set up password" link for those who have problematic communications.

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