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Password input fields
Raised as a usability problem by 21 people on Hacker News over 18 years (2009–2026), in 19 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
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Password fields block paste, forcing hand-typing of complicated passwordsUnreviewed
20092026- Hard to type password correctly because of held-shift characters in the middle2026-02-22
- Password fields block paste, forcing users to type complicated passwords by hand2025-06-12
- Can't copy from password field, so must retype password via notepad and paste repeatedly2024-09-08
Password silently truncated past a length limit, so login fails unexpectedlyUnreviewed
20092026- Entering long passwords one letter at a time on clunky interfaces is tedious and error prone2024-05-02
- Password silently truncated past a length limit, so login fails unexpectedly and is hard to troubleshoot2022-01-19
- Password silently truncated to site's max length without any warning2021-11-16
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 22 complaints
- Hard to type password correctly because of held-shift characters in the middle2026-02-22
- Password fields block paste, forcing users to type complicated passwords by hand2025-06-12
- Can't copy from password field, so must retype password via notepad and paste repeatedly2024-09-08
- Entering long passwords one letter at a time on clunky interfaces is tedious and error prone2024-05-02
- Password rules and blind entry twice on small phone keyboards make setting a password hard2023-08-09
- Password rules are unclear, so users can't tell why their password is rejected2023-06-29
- Forced to type password blind twice, easily getting it wrong2023-06-15
- Forces users with complex passwords to retype or paste the password twice2023-06-15
- Password silently truncated past a length limit, so login fails unexpectedly and is hard to troubleshoot2022-01-19
- Password silently truncated to site's max length without any warning2021-11-16
- Login fields block pasting, so users must type passwords manually2021-11-16
- Users type a wrong password with caps lock on and get no warning2021-06-28
- Accepts a long or complex password at signup, then rejects it or silently truncates it at login2021-05-24
- Paste blocked, silent length limits and restricted special characters make entering passwords frustrating2017-05-18
- Typing password in wrong keyboard layout by accident locks users out2016-11-13
- Pasted passwords silently truncated with no feedback, failing login in seemingly random ways2015-10-24
- Each site has different password requirements and limits, confusing help text, discovered only after submitting2014-06-04
- Can't paste passwords into the field, so must retype generated passwords manually2014-03-14
- Hidden password characters are hard to check on mobile, making typing errors likely2013-10-14
- Users mistype masked passwords and get frustrated by failed login attempts2009-07-29
- Showing passwords by default would make login forms inconsistent and harder to use when others can see2009-06-23
- A show-password checkbox would be easy to miss, and users could leak passwords by forgetting it2009-06-23