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Comment by moeffju | Hacker News Reader

This is neither a new pattern, nor does it seem to be executed in a particularly interesting way. Am I blasé or am I missing something?

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I built NoPassword (https://nopassword.alexsmolen.com/), an open source Rails implementation of this design. It was on the front page of Hacker News a few months ago. I use it on another site I'm working on, Agave Society (http://www.agavesociety.org).

I haven't seen this before; what other apps/sites have used it?

I first looked into this sort of solution after reading an article about it what must have been 1.5 years ago. We then implemented it for Toptranslation.com (user can create a password or just use a link to login to their dashboard). I also remember two or more stories about this scheme on HN since, which (of course) I cannot find right now :(

I suppose I started noticing it more once I had actually implemented this process in a public product.

craigslist? any time you want to post, you get a link that lets you confirm/publish the post, or edit/delete the post.

That's an excellent comparison, but from my understanding there's not a concept of ongoing users beyond the author of any individual post. Great point, though, that seems like the highest-profile similar example.

I came up with it independently two or three years ago:

http://www.yourpane.com

It now uses either that or Mozilla Persona, which I find better.

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