Products · Pattern or everyday thing
Password login forms
Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2013–2025), in 7 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
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Two-step login breaks password manager autofill, forcing copy-pasteUnreviewed
20132026- Login prompts break browser password saving and split username and password into separate steps2025-01-06
- Two-step login forces extra clicks and breaks password manager autofill, so credentials must be copy-pasted2024-09-07
- Autofill fills only the password, or fills the create-account section instead of login2023-01-10
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 7 complaints
- Websites confuse password managers so users must copy and paste passwords manually2025-06-20
- Login prompts break browser password saving and split username and password into separate steps2025-01-06
- Two-step login forces extra clicks and breaks password manager autofill, so credentials must be copy-pasted2024-09-07
- Autofill fills only the password, or fills the create-account section instead of login2023-01-10
- Logging in requires switching between password manager, app, and authenticator several times2020-10-17
- Password accepted at signup but rejected at login due to encoding or sanitization mismatch2018-11-05
- A wrong password forces a delay and retyping the whole command2013-09-11