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Login flows
Raised as a usability problem by 10 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2017–2024), in 10 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Login split across steps with ambiguous third-party sign-inUnreviewed
20172026- Unintuitive, different login flows confuse users and drive them away2024-10-10
- Juggling multiple accounts' login verification prompts makes fixing problems on the go frustrating2023-08-24
- Login split across steps and ambiguous third-party sign-in make authentication unnecessarily difficult2019-09-10
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 10 complaints
- Unintuitive, different login flows confuse users and drive them away2024-10-10
- Logging in is so hard it adds friction to using the platforms2024-01-03
- Juggling multiple accounts' login verification prompts makes fixing problems on the go frustrating2023-08-24
- Page doesn't update after login until the user manually refreshes2023-05-24
- Users get stuck logging in, guessing wrong emails and forgetting which social account they used2022-10-12
- After logging in, user is sent to a generic account page instead of the original URL2021-06-28
- Login asks for password plus characters at specific positions, forcing a custom extension workaround2020-05-18
- Login split across steps and ambiguous third-party sign-in make authentication unnecessarily difficult2019-09-10
- After logging in, the app sends you to the home page, forcing you to search again2019-02-15
- Changing a login email is annoying because some sites assume the user still has the old email2017-07-02