I think a lot of the complaints here are "nerd problems".

For customers they seem like a super convenient thing, I was just implementing them in my app. Yes magic links have problems and it's probably making me lean more towards the "emailing a code" option now, some of those problems outlined aren't easy to ignore.

The app I'm working on, users would login probably once or twice a year. I just can't imagine they want to deal with passwords, especially because my app is very niche, they'd use it once a year for one thing only. What I can imagine them having to do is constantly use the "forgot my password" feature anyway.

For conversion easy logins are really important.Anyone have any better ideas than magic links, passwords or one time codes in email?