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Wassim

What are your thoughts on passwordless login?

I'm thinking of implementing login via "magic link" on a new project I'm working on. Basically, users won't have passwords and needs to enter their email to receive a link in order to login each time.

What do you think of that? Have you implemented this before? If so, how was the user experience?

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Vicki Langer

I don’t really have any input, but I’m curious to learn more. Where would the user get the magic link?

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Wassim Author

Via email. When you click on a "magic link", you will be logged in automatically.

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Vicki Langer

Would I have to go through my email to click this link every time I want to access the site? If that’s the case, I’d rather just have a password.@wassim

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Frederick Morin

User experience is awful for anybody using a password manager. Instead of a one click login you end up with a multi step process that's not even more secure. I wouldn't recommend it especially if your users are tech people.

If you want security, 2FA via authenticator app is a better option.

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Wassim Author

Thanks for your input. Actually, I'm not doing this for more security but more of a convenience for non-tech people. Some well established sites are using the same technique:

  • https://medium.com
  • https://notion.so
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Brian Ball

I'm thinking of doing it as well @wassim -- My experience has been that depending on cookies and if you can keep them logged in easily enough it's okay. If you log them out easily, it can get cumbersome. Let's figure it out.

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Anthony Corcutt

One problem is it makes it difficult if your users ever need to share a login with a team member as they would need access to the email account. This could be useful though if you want to prevent this or have 1 account per user.

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Macario James

I like the option of using a magic link or not like how Slack does it over Notion or Medium.

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