Products · Pattern or everyday thing
Password forms
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2011–2017), in 4 threads.
People raised many different problems with Password forms, 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
- Password silently truncated at signup, so the full password fails at login with no clear feedback2017-03-10
- Sites reject long generated passwords with special characters or length limits, forcing users to give up2015-03-05
- Wrong email gives no feedback, user waits forever for a reset email that never comes2012-10-04
- Breaks users' habit of checking for a secure connection before entering credentials2011-01-18