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As a user I definitely appreciate the emphasis of privacy first as well as its clear responsibility for identification. However, from how I see it on the surface, it currently doesn't have the market reach as, say, FB Connect or Google, and I don't want to "flood" my users with too many options for authentication. What's the practical arguments of rolling out my own authentication (Rails + Devise) vs using Personas?

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It's available to any user with an email address -- you don't have to limit yourself to users that have, and are willing to use, a Facebook or Google account.

Versus rolling your own, you don't have the friction of account creation / password management for new user signups if the user has ever used Persona before, and we'll be dramatically improving first-contact before the end of the year. You can completely forget about storing passwords. You don't have to send email verifications or handle forgotten passwords.

Ah so true, email verifications and forgotten passwords can become a hassle. Thanks for the insight callahad.

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