Adding my voice here because this is creating real friction for members.

While magic links are well-intentioned, in practice they are a major barrier, especially for:

• members who don’t receive the email (or it’s delayed/filtered)

• members using shared devices, work devices, or tablets

• members who don’t have email access on the device they’re using

• less tech-savvy or older audiences

From a community owner perspective, this is often the first experience a new member has - and when login fails, many simply don’t continue. I’m confident this has directly contributed to lost members and increased support requests.

Even retaining magic links as an optional method, while adding username/password, would dramatically reduce friction and improve onboarding, retention, and trust.

This has been requested consistently for years, and it genuinely feels like a critical UX and growth issue rather than a “nice to have.” I really hope it can be prioritised.

This is so troublesome as we launch our new community. People aren't getting the magic links in their inbox or spam folders and they're unable to join. Username + Password would avoid all of this and a messy first experience with this platform and my community!

PLEASE HELP! I am literally about to lose members over this. It's so frustrating that I can't get them any answers on how to stop it. Can anyone at least help with that to say when someone asks?

"Can we not have the ability to use a simple username/password login?"

Yes please. It's very silly that we can't do this.

Does anyone know if this is different on other platforms like Circle? I just started adding people and this seems like a major block and an extra step to send them an email to remind them to download the app / login.

If not that, for whatever reason, allow users using social logins from e.g. Microsoft, Google, FB instead or to embedd my own and existing login provider (e.g. I am using MojoAuth for different services already & would love keeping my members within my workflow and tools rather relying on yours)

Not having real login system is driving us nuts. We have work to do, sitting around waiting for login emails isn't it.

Yep, like all other 111 users expressing their dissatisfaction, I too would love to have a traditional username and password feature!