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1212# Secure, seamless login for Urbit
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14−Let's make joining Urbit easier
15−The first boot story of Urbit has improved much recent years, but it still requires technical skill. An Urbit user has to acquire an Urbit ID, which requires knowledge of the Ethereum ecosystem, and then has to find a good hosting setup to run the Urbit runtime, which also generally requires technical skill with Unix computers.
16−But even if ID acquisition and hosting aren't an issue, say you are using a paid hosting service, or a friend took care of booting your ship for you. When you first visit your Urbit frontend, either the Grid web interface, or the EScape mobile app, you are greeted with a login screen asking for the +code login password, or even the ship's URL (in the case of EScape). You have to repeat that for every new device or browser that you use.
17−This is not an ideal UX for the vast majority of users. Mainstream mobile apps such as Signal handle first login much more seamlessly; after registration is done, further logins are done via QR code. The app produces a QR code, you scan it, and that's it. That's the state-of-the-art, battle-tested user experience for modern applications. And we are bringing this to Urbit.
18−Gate makes it easier for newcomers to use Urbit, and greatly enhances the user experience of native applications, desktop and mobile, that Urbit deserves.
14+Let's make joining Urbit easier!
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16+Why do this?
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18+When you can do this?
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21+Logging in to any Urbit app requires you to input your ship's URL and the `+code` generated on dojo. This requires people to login to their ship's terminal, output the code on dojo, then copy and paste it in their browser or app. This is bad enough if you have a ship running locally, but if you have it running remotely (as is common) the process becomes seriously annoying.
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23+Mainstream mobile apps such as Signal handle first login much more seamlessly; after registration is done, further logins are done via QR code. The app produces a QR code, you scan it, and that's it. That's the state-of-the-art, battle-tested user experience for modern applications. Now available on Urbit.
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25+Gate makes it easier for newcomers to use Urbit, and greatly enhances the user experience of native applications, desktop and mobile, that Urbit deserves.
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21−Users can login to Urbit just by scanning a QR code, receive a URL link and login to an Urbit ship instantly by clicking on it, and even hosting providers can use Gate to send a QR code or a URL link to a user, and have the user access his Urbit apps with a simple camera scan or click of a link.
27+Users can login to Urbit just by scanning a QR code, receive a URL link and login to an Urbit ship instantly by clicking on it. That simple. Most importantly, hosting providers can use Gate to send a QR code or a URL link to a user, and have the user access his Urbit apps with a simple camera scan or click of a link, making the onboarding process much easier for non-technical users.