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Username fields
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2012–2022), in 4 threads.
People raised many different problems with Username fields, 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
- Signing in with username and password is inherently very annoying2022-11-23
- Many username fields reject long usernames, forcing shorter choices2022-09-17
- Confusing error message about usernames ending in file-type extensions2021-09-15
- Forcing users to type and remember yet another username string when signing up2012-08-04