[apimade]

"BrowserID failed in 2016, but WKID won't"

"And the big providers (gmail.com, outlook.com, yahoo.com, icloud.com) will never be supported."

You've changed the definition of "success" here. Why not just launch using Persona rather than RYO? What benefits do you provide over it?

[wakamoleguy]

That’s how this project started, with trying to take the Persona repo and bringing it up to date. There were two challenges… first, don’t underestimate how hard it is to take a decade old Node repo and run it today. There are no types, many dependencies don’t work on modern Node versions, and upgrading them all together is a nightmare. BrowserID is not a very complex protocol, so rebuilding it gave me an opportunity to use new tools (TypeScript, Bun, Jose for crypto).

And the second reason is that I don’t want to try to be Mozilla Persona. The fallback IdP is a great idea, but y’all have no reason to trust me to be the one to run it. I can sidestep that issue for my own needs today, avoid the complexity of sending emails, and if for some reason this project does pick up any steam we can figure out whether/how to add that functionality down the road.