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Login screens
Raised as a usability problem by 17 people on Hacker News over 19 years (2008–2026), in 12 threads.
People raised many different problems with Login screens, 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 17 complaints
- Sign-in split across five screens; mislabeled fields break password managers2026-06-09
- Password field ignores paste and auto-type, forcing slow character-by-character copying2024-03-08
- Dialog closes on a timer while the page is still blank, leaving user unsure if login succeeded2022-09-20
- Login is hidden behind a prominent sign-up form, making it hard to find for existing users2020-09-26
- Users struggle to remember which sign-in method they originally used among many options2020-08-22
- Login looks like it requires a phone number when it does not2020-02-09
- Login screens are hard to get right; magic-link login requires clicking repeatedly2020-01-05
- Signup and login walls are horrible, and logging in on mobile is painful2014-12-02
- Modals on mobile lack a close button, aren't responsive, and break zooming and scrolling2013-03-13
- No visible submit button, which is frustrating on touch devices2012-10-11
- Users don't know to press Enter because the submit button is hidden2012-10-11
- No cue telling users to press Enter to continue after filling fields2012-10-11
- Can't tell whether to overwrite or type after label-in-field focus, and labels vanish on mobile2012-10-11
- Missing submit button makes the login form less apparent to non-technical users2012-10-11
- Forgot Password copies a blank email because the login form clears fields on error2012-10-11
- Apps ask for username and password again instead of using Android's stored account credentials2012-04-24
- Lightbox login forces extra clicks and makes users figure out how to close it2008-06-08