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Email login links and codes
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2013–2024), in 4 threads.
People raised many different problems with Email login links and codes, 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 4 complaints
- Has to wait for the email and click the link, slower than autofill2024-09-07
- Must switch to email, click link, close tab, and return to original tab2016-03-02
- Having to log into email then retype codes on each website is slow and inconvenient2014-04-13
- Users must wait minutes for login emails to arrive2013-09-11