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Single sign-on
Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 6 years (2021–2026), in 6 threads.
People raised many different problems with Single sign-on, 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 7 complaints
- Has to sign in repeatedly across many sites, which is maddening2026-03-23
- Losing access to a central email-tied account makes everything else unrecoverable and support is very hard to reach2025-03-25
- Family must log in separately to each app, and mobile apps need repeated logins2025-02-17
- Constantly logging in to many tools is slow and frustrating, causing procrastination2024-10-23
- Frequent or slow authentication leads users to choose weaker passwords or workarounds2022-03-12
- Frequent authentication requests cause users to click through blindly2022-03-11
- Sign-on redirects 10-20 times, then dumps user on homepage2021-03-26