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SSO
Raised as a usability problem by 12 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2013–2026), in 11 threads.
People raised many different problems with SSO, 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 12 complaints
- Autofill works on some login pages and not others, so users learn to copy and paste passwords2026-10-14
- Session logs out after a short network drop, forcing full re-login and 2FA repeatedly2025-06-12
- Asks for remote password repeatedly, locks machine after inactivity, conflating local and remote passwords2025-03-31
- SSO instructions break when identity providers change portals, and support tickets are hard to resolve2024-08-20
- Users can't tell legitimate SSO redirects from spam redirects2023-08-18
- Engineers are repeatedly interrupted by re-authentication prompts many times a day2022-06-21
- Repeated SSO approval popups; some get hidden by Focus Mode or routed to the watch2022-06-20
- SSO setup is painful, requires specialized expertise and is hard to get working2022-04-27
- Multi-step SSO login breaks password manager autofill and adds slow redirects2022-03-20
- Having to repeat the two-step SSO login dance on every visit2017-12-29
- Single sign-on login requires many redirects, account picking and re-entering passwords every time2017-04-11
- More complex SSO systems are massively overcomplicated and difficult to configure2013-10-05