Products · Pattern or everyday thing
OTP
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 17 years (2009–2025), in 4 threads.
People raised many different problems with OTP, 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
- Authenticator codes fail to transfer to a new phone, locking the user out of accounts2025-05-14
- Pasting a full code into split OTP boxes only fills the first digit2024-04-17
- Crash-loop halting is unintuitive and easy to overlook, causing failures2020-03-23
- Useful supervisor functionality is hard to find without knowing the right module2009-12-08