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Hi I'm the Mozilla intern that developed this and would really love some feedback! It's super-experimental right now, but feel free to try it out! I plan to release a more formal post later once some more bugs are squashed.

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First of all, project looks great! Haven't had a chance to try it yet, but I've been impressed with other WebRTC demos, including http://vmux.co which is similar but uses Twitter to authenticate.

My slightly less positive feedback would be, it seems dodgy that it uses personatest.org instead of persona.org (and there's no website at www.personatest.org verifying its legitimacy). Kind of makes me anxious that I'm being phished. Any reason for this? You surely don't want people getting used to entering their Persona credentials at sites other than persona.org.

+1 about personatest.org. I felt also slightly uncomfortable about this and would like to know the reason :)

Otherwise it seems great :)

This is a test persona server as the code here is still very early and not in the persona's master branch yet.

Persona required some changes to the code that have not yet landed in production i.e. on login.persona.org so we are using personatest.org for preliminary testing :)

ah ok, thanks for clarifying :)

Same here, I'd feel more comfortable if it was something like test.persona.org.

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