BrowserID

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2011–2026), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with BrowserID, 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 6 complaints

Hiding which sites you log into requires device and key management most users can't manage2026-04-26
No UI for sites without support and requires a JS library, making it hard to adopt2012-07-29
Logging in takes extra steps: remember an ID, wait, re-enter it, then password2012-06-27
Remove button is hidden under an edit button, making it hard to find2011-12-26
Inconsistent capitalization of button labels makes the login interface worse2011-12-26
Separate keys per browser and machine would need manual syncing, a poor experience2011-07-14