Open Letter to Mozilla: Bring Back Persona
I hate that the best user experience for logins is &quot;Login with facebook&quot; or &quot;Login with Google&quot;. I don&#x27;t want to impose that privacy failure on my users, but I also don&#x27;t want to impose the annoyance that is &quot;Sign up with a username, email address, and password&quot;. Offering all of the options is also a compromise that complicates the user experience.<p>Now, here&#x27;s the sad thing, for me: I didn&#x27;t even know Persona <i>existed</i> until its demise was being discussed on HN and reddit. Persona is exactly what I want for my users and my sites; and for my own use of the web. And, I didn&#x27;t even know it was an option until it stopped being an option.<p>In short: I strongly agree. Mozilla has to focus resources on areas where it can have the biggest impact on privacy and the open web. This is one of those areas.<p>I hated to see Thunderbird dropped from the Mozilla roster, as it is my mail client of choice, but I understand where they&#x27;re coming from. I hated to see FirefoxOS end, but I never got to use it, and it seems to have been doomed from the get-go by poor market fit and difficulty competing with the three biggest tech companies in the world in a market where money and influence play a role in which devices get into users hands. But, Persona is exactly the right kind of thing for Mozilla to be doing, and there&#x27;s no reason they can&#x27;t do it effectively, and without a huge amount of resources.