Mozilla Stops Developing Its Persona Sign-In System

If you don’t know about Mozilla’s Persona sign-in and identity, you’re apparently not the only one. Citing low adoption rates, Mozilla has decided to give up on this project and is allocating its developer resources to different projects. Mozilla will continue to host the service and patch security issues as needed, however. The organization hopes the community will continue to develop the product, but given that there had been very little interest in supporting it in the first place, it seems doubtful that many developers will volunteer to pick up the slack.

I always liked the idea behind Persona, which uses email addresses as a way to authenticate users. It was a pretty simple and easy way to log in to sites, but sadly, very few developers actually integrated it into their own products. For the most part, even Mozilla always pointed those who wanted to try it out to some of its own products like Webmaker or a demo on 123done.