[huragok]

That's a major factor why many of my new projects use BrowserID. The upsides are that I don't have to worry about compromised password or verifying email addresses.

The downside is that it adds a dependency on Mozilla to keep their service up and that it isn't widely adopted yet, but I'm figuring it has legs.

[StavrosK]

I use BrowserID because it takes 5 minutes to integrate, whereas styling and testing all the password change/reset/confirmation/whatever pages takes the better part of a day.

You don't have to depend on Mozilla, you can do your own verification if you like, so nothing leaves your site.

A side-project I made, http://www.yourpane.com, is even simpler: Just enter your email in the box and you get a sign-in link which you can bookmark. No passwords or anything.

[joshkaufman]

I'm curious about the YourPane login method. Is it open source?

[StavrosK]

No, but I just generate a token for each user and send it to their email when they request it (an account is created if that address doesn't exist). There's a URL that accepts the token and logs them in, that's pretty much it. Hardly anything to open-source.