Products · Pattern or everyday thing
Websites that restrict passwords
Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2009–2022), in 6 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
Every issue, all time, most people first
Special characters rejected or length capped in passwordsUnreviewed
20092026- Sites reject special characters or cap length, so passwords can't be created as needed2017-07-06
- Accepts special-character or long passwords, then rejects them at sign-in with no warning2015-12-31
- Sites forbid symbols, forcing weaker second-class passwords that are hard to remember later2009-07-24
Pasting into login is blocked, forcing long passwords typed by handUnreviewed
20092026- Hidden password while typing makes complex passwords hard to enter correctly, risking lockout2022-12-22
- Blocks pasting at login, forcing a long password to be typed by hand2018-09-11
- Blocking paste makes randomly generated site-specific passwords painful to enter2013-02-01
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 6 complaints
- Hidden password while typing makes complex passwords hard to enter correctly, risking lockout2022-12-22
- Blocks pasting at login, forcing a long password to be typed by hand2018-09-11
- Sites reject special characters or cap length, so passwords can't be created as needed2017-07-06
- Accepts special-character or long passwords, then rejects them at sign-in with no warning2015-12-31
- Blocking paste makes randomly generated site-specific passwords painful to enter2013-02-01
- Sites forbid symbols, forcing weaker second-class passwords that are hard to remember later2009-07-24