Mozilla Persona has shut down

[javra]

This makes the BrowserID auth example deprecated and the auth chapter need a overhaul in general.

It's pretty sad. I really dislike Google and I was maybe one of the few people who used Persona themselves. Maybe Yesod could provide support for Portier?

[psibi]

I don't think Portier is yet production ready. But yeah, the authentication chapter needs some cleanup.

[snoyberg]

I'm not going to have a chance for the cleanup in the immediate future. @javra would you be interested in sending a PR for some fixes?

[psibi]

@snoyberg Can we replace Browser Id section in the chapter with Facebook authentication using Felipe's yesod-auth-fb package ?

Also I'm worried about the package's non maintenance now. I think it's already out of Stackage now.

[snoyberg]

That works. What about using OpenID though? It seems a slightly more natural replacement as it doesn't require any secure credentials/account creation like Facebook.

[javra]

I think, OpenID would be the better replacement.

[elelel]

I've been trying out the examples from the book and rewrote the blog example to OpenId. However, to my surprise the hardest part was to test it out: most of major OpenId providers deprecated it. As reader I would prefer the examples to be independent from external or non-mainstream services as much as possible. In this case I'd rather prefer simple login/password auth scheme.