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TOTP two-factor authentication
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2013–2025), in 4 threads.
People raised many different problems with TOTP two-factor authentication, 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 4 complaints
- Non-technical users find TOTP setup confusing and need hand-holding2025-04-15
- Must open app, wait, read numbers and type them in each time2022-10-18
- Logging in means finding the phone, opening the app, and typing a code from a long list2019-03-01
- Users don't understand TOTP and find fetching their phone to log in painful2013-04-24