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Passwords
Raised as a usability problem by 22 people on Hacker News over 15 years (2012–2026), in 22 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
Every issue, all time, most people first
Easy passwords get hacked, hard ones get forgottenUnreviewed
20122026- Older users reuse, forget and reset passwords repeatedly because of complexity rules2026-02-28
- Users must remember dozens of passwords and can't tell fake sites2023-05-03
- Creating, remembering, and resetting passwords is hard for older people and people with disabilities2022-10-13
Password fields block autofill and pasting, forcing manual entryUnreviewed
20122026- Passwords are hard to generate and don't reliably autofill into websites2026-10-11
- Password fields block autofill and pasting, forcing manual password entry2026-02-28
- Password entry is a terrible experience for users2018-10-14
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 23 complaints
- Passwords are hard to generate and don't reliably autofill into websites2026-10-11
- Security steps like two-factor hoops are annoying to get through and still get bypassed2026-08-06
- Password fields block autofill and pasting, forcing manual password entry2026-02-28
- Older users reuse, forget and reset passwords repeatedly because of complexity rules2026-02-28
- Users must manually concatenate their OTP onto the password, which is awkward2024-01-20
- Users must remember dozens of passwords and can't tell fake sites2023-05-03
- Copying passwords from a text file really sucks on mobile2023-01-02
- Creating, remembering, and resetting passwords is hard for older people and people with disabilities2022-10-13
- Sites reject reused passwords and demand digits and symbols, forcing users to remember more passwords2022-03-28
- Random strong passwords are hard for users to remember, pushing them to reuse passwords2022-03-18
- People cannot remember 100+ hard passwords and which goes with which service2022-03-18
- Users forget passwords they typed minutes or hours earlier, needing resets2020-02-13
- Password entry is a terrible experience for users2018-10-14
- Users must make passwords unique, complex and memorized, which is practically impossible2017-08-03
- Too many passwords with site-specific rules and usernames to remember, so people get locked out2017-07-30
- Forgot many passwords and couldn't remember which sites had accounts2017-02-26
- Passwords are hard to remember, so people pick weak ones or reuse them2016-12-29
- Average users can't remember long random passwords or word sequences reliably2016-11-23
- Users must remember meaningless passwords; easy ones get hacked, hard ones are forgotten2015-10-24
- Random passwords are impossible to remember and must be typed on phones2014-09-03
- Random passwords are forgotten, forcing a reset every time the site is used2012-11-16
- Forgotten passwords on rarely visited sites fail due to unexpected symbol requirements2012-09-03
- Must find a keyboard to recall half their passwords when setting up a phone2012-07-19