More Magic Link Pitfalls

Folks kindly responded with some criticism of my list of magic link pitfalls. So let’s talk about some more pitfalls! Magic links are annoying This was by far the most common sentiment: “just give me a username and password”. I’m 99% sure this criticism comes from tech-savvy developers, so I’ll rephrase this as: “just give me a way to login with my password manager”. That’s fair! The most common proposed solution was to implement passkeys. They can’t replace magic links entirely, since most u...