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I will get banned for this in a matter of minutes but I will say the truth to whoever think HN is fair. For the past 3 months, every, again EVERY post that was linked to Tailscale (not just the company domain but also the blog posts of the founders' websites), has gotten to the frontpage within minutes, with a full 100% hit rate. This cannot happen for any company, any project or anything else to be honest since ther…
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(I'm a Tailscale co-founder) The idea is to avoid building yet another commercial service that holds onto your username and password. People have enough identities already. More details here: https://tailscale.com/blog/how-tailscale-works/ We know we keep getting feedback that people want a different way to authorize their accounts (especially for personal use), so we're looking at other options. We just really want…
I'd actually rather you have my username and password, since I use a password manager and every password is long and unique. I don't want to tie my Google/Apple/ account to my Tailscale account. This way I can also more easily keep track of which accounts I have since my password manager stores them all. So I will wait for email signup (which currently just subscribes me to a mailing list...)!
And you don't get any key rotation unless you force people to change their passwords occasionally, which is itself now deprecated as a bad practice because people then start writing their passwords down on paper or storing them in a spreadsheet, which is even worse than no rotation. (Tailscale rotates your VPN keys automatically, but it's all for naught if the root key is just a password.)
We know that something better is needed for personal accounts, but please, not username+password. Your private network security is important. The world needs something much closer to foolproof.
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Having your friends upvote your posts on HN doesn't mean HN "favors" you.
> Can I ask people to upvote my submission? [1] > No. Users should vote for a story because they personally find it intellectually interesting, not because someone has content to promote. HN's software penalizes submissions, accounts, and sites that break this rule, so please don't. "A "voting ring" is when people get friends to upvote their stuff. This is against the rules. We want stories to be on HN because they'r…
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(I'm a Tailscale co-founder) The idea is to avoid building yet another commercial service that holds onto your username and password. People have enough identities already. More details here: https://tailscale.com/blog/how-tailscale-works/ We know we keep getting feedback that people want a different way to authorize their accounts (especially for personal use), so we're looking at other options. We just really want…
Maybe you can look at Sign In with Apple, it works native and for websites too. https://developer.apple.com/sign-in-with-apple/
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(I'm a Tailscale co-founder) The idea is to avoid building yet another commercial service that holds onto your username and password. People have enough identities already. More details here: https://tailscale.com/blog/how-tailscale-works/ We know we keep getting feedback that people want a different way to authorize their accounts (especially for personal use), so we're looking at other options. We just really want…
Maybe you can look at Sign In with Apple, it works native and for websites too. https://developer.apple.com/sign-in-with-apple/
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(I'm a Tailscale co-founder) The idea is to avoid building yet another commercial service that holds onto your username and password. People have enough identities already. More details here: https://tailscale.com/blog/how-tailscale-works/ We know we keep getting feedback that people want a different way to authorize their accounts (especially for personal use), so we're looking at other options. We just really want…
Have you considered integrating with Keybase? I think the identity system of Keybase coupled with the secure mesh networking of Tailscale would be a really powerful combination.
Also, being able to ping my iOS phone that's on 4G from my computer feels like magic.
Been using it for the last few months and it's great. I use it for SSH, NAS etc... Also, being able to ping my iOS phone that's on 4G from my computer feels like magic.
So, like every other VPN?
GSuite is easy to justify for me. Github is. JIRA is. Tailscale is more expensive than all of them and it's hard for me to make the case, even to myself, that it's worth it.
I'd like to ask Tailscale to think about alternative pricing models of maybe $20/month per admin account, which comes with 10 bundled "member" accounts or similar. That would get me to $40 or $60 a month, which I can stomach. But I won't pay $300+/month to save myself a little bit of inconvenience every few weeks so my devs can securely log into our servers.