Email and password with option to connect via Facebook.
Ask HN: How to you prefer to log in to websites?
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Re: Ask HN: How to you prefer to log in to websites?
#12Email+password. As a user with a password manager (LastPass), I can log in with one click, use a unique password everywhere, and never forget a password. Can't beat it in terms of usability. From the developer's perspective, there's a bit of boilerplate to be done, but it's nice to own the data and not rely on third party platforms. I think there's an unfulfilled need for identity management by password managers. Why…
Thanks! I didn't think about LastPass, but since the website will be targeted (mostly) towards a hacker crowd it makes sense that many of the users will use a password manager like LastPass. I'm not a LastPass user myself but I guess that takes away a bit of the hurdle from a user's point of view.
Re: Ask HN: How to you prefer to log in to websites?
#13mathijs, you might want to look into remoteStorage. It’s an open protocol for per-user data storage. As it also has identification & authorization, the log in is inherent. It’s kind of like OpenID + Storage, except that we don’t use OpenID (but rather Webfinger, OAuth, CORS and Get put delete on a key value store).
For a developer, you just put in the remoteStorage.js client-side library and that enables everyone to log in to your app with their remoteStorage.
Check it out at http://unhosted.org and http://www.w3.org/community/unhosted/wiki/RemoteStorage There is also an IRC channel, #unhosted on freenode.