Well, to be fair, it wouldn't be all that complex if we just had one standard in...

sp332 · on Oct 23, 2015

Microsoft does the same thing with many of their logins. You put in your user ID, and it uses that to know what server is going to authenticate you and forwards you to it.

efdee · on Oct 23, 2015

> Who on earth thought it was a good idea to have a two step for username THEN password!?

I haven't used Persona, but maybe this is because not all users use passwords? Sometimes you use AD authentication, or token generators, or ...

spronkey · on Oct 26, 2015

Sure. But what percentage of users would that be? Single digits?

jorams · on Oct 23, 2015

> Who on earth thought it was a good idea to have a two step for username THEN password!?

Google, as of a while ago.

Persona at least had a good reason for it, with not all users needing to enter a password.

spronkey · on Oct 26, 2015

Perhaps, but it seemed to do a pretty poor job of remembering me...

At least with Google, despite them being a pretty poor example of good auth UX, you only ever have to type in your password (+ 2fa code etc)