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i agree with this. many sites these days have 2FA/OTP in the login flow and they that box is marked as password, and everytime the browser asks "do you want to update your password?" maha irritating experience.



My #1 biggest pet peeve with the web right now is that nobody labels their form fields either correctly or at all, for any kind of field. And more generally just doing tons of stupid garbage that obviously breaks browsers.

I've seen so many permutations of garbage UX:

* the 2FA flow trying to save your password * credit card inputs not having any labels, only having some labels, or having wrong labels * credit card inputs doing some javascript bullshit like manually autotyping a space to simulate the groupings of the card numerals, which inevitably breaks in many comical ways when the browser sets it. My favorite it when the grouping code conflicts with the "don't type too many numbers" validation code and results in only 3/4ths of the number being inputted. * things not labelling login forms properly so that mobile browsers pick up the hint to offer you to open your password manager * websites having a million similar domains they own and copiously link between, so that you end up trying to log in to like, citicards.com but your passwords is only saved for something.citibank.com or whatever.

I know it's a cliche but I'm commonly wondering: have any of these people even tried using their own website even once???? I know that if I owned a company and the way that people give me money was so comically broken, I would be sending Bezos-style ? emails to the teams responsible.


This is also hostile to accessibility.




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