Just let me in, please

Max van IJsselmuiden's Just let me in, please is a good rant about login friction. Codes that send you to your inbox. A dashboard that forgets which page you wanted. A lot of it looks like ritual to me. Somebody added a step once, everybody copied it, and now we call it security.

I agree with the mood but not the fix: let people pick their sign-in method up front. That doesn't remove the question, it hands it to you. Did I sign up with Google or a password? His own example has more than a dozen sign-in buttons.

Passkeys are the likely way out. The FIDO Alliance claims 93% sign-in success versus 63% for other methods. That's a survey of nine of its own members, by the people promoting passkeys. I wouldn't quote it as proof.

And dumping everyone on a generic dashboard after login is just nobody owning the whole journey.