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Bank account signup
Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2015–2026), in 7 threads.
People raised many different problems with Bank account signup, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 7 complaints
- Forced to sign digitally without seeing the agreement first2026-06-19
- Long names get rejected or cause staff confusion when entered into forms2025-05-03
- Letter o entered as zero, looks identical in bank font, hard to spot2024-04-23
- Must install bank app and use SMS 2FA to activate account even in branch2024-01-04
- Banks require residence address and PO box mail causes in-person hassle and friction2021-03-05
- Can't read the full article even after registering2020-05-22
- Pasting a spaced account number gets truncated silently, so payments fail2015-12-10