Persona login

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2013–2021), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with Persona login, 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 5 complaints

Testers couldn't log in with email because they got sent to Persona account management2021-04-07
Websites struggled with the bad user experience of the fallback login2015-10-23
Must type email address even when already logged into Gmail, more steps than OpenID2013-08-08
After signing in with Persona, user is told no account exists and must register again2013-04-10
Sign-in pop-up takes you through several domains and extra clicks, feeling clunky2013-04-09