Google OAuth

Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2016–2025), in 7 threads.

People raised many different problems with Google OAuth, 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

Creating an app password requires navigating multiple confusing settings screens2025-03-31
Sign-in fails and apps lose state when switching to email client on mobile2023-12-21
Codes silently fail with no explanation of what went wrong2023-04-26
Slow, vague review replies with no full list of required changes2020-05-14
Trouble getting Google API authentication working from Emacs2020-01-24
Confusing, outdated documentation and slow back-and-forth emails to learn what to fix2019-06-21
Couldn't find status pages showing the disruption, leaving users confused2016-09-08