I think magic links and passkeys are awful for websites. I have refused to give services money because their only login system is a magic link, passkey or using a 3rd party login. For example, I got some free credits for clipdrop.co, I like their service, even setup the API and got everything working, but when it was time to buy some real credits and give them money, their login system was so awful I just found an alternative with a path of least resistance.

Another company I wanted to give lots of money too was fal.ai, but you can only login through github, which I didn't want to do. I even emailed them asking about alternatives but they couldn't even bother to reply. So my money was spent else where.

I don't have my email login on my computer so for every tragic link I get that means I would either have to find a way to get the link from my phone to the computer or login to my email from the computer just to click that stupid link.

You know what faster, more efficient and better in every way? Using an user and password.

I should not have to suffer because some nitwits can't remember their passwords, we should not subsidize mediocrity because we will get more mediocrity.

Thank you for reading my rant.