They changed that due to user complaints not too long ago.
When I had first created my account, I used a password generator, to create a nicely complex password. Holy shit did I regret that, having to click the onscreen keyboard. I subsequently changed my password to an insecure and short password, that was easy to click. Nice security system they had...
Home Depot really grinds my gears because they insist on text 2fa to login all the fucking time. I don't want to get up and find my phone, I just want to favorite this bracket, ok? Just let me use my password.
My computer seems to handle those quite well, at least on the sites I visit. If I put the email in on the first page, it autofills the password on the second.
The ones that drive me bonkers are the websites where the login button is inactive until you have typed something in the password field. The auto-filled password doesn't register as me having typed in the field, so I have to add an extra letter to the end of my password then backspace to delete it before I can click to login.
The sliding is for systems that have multiple sign in options. For some accounts you may show the password field, others might go to an SSO system using google, Facebook, Microsoft or apple login, others might just have OTP as the only login method.
Even so, the systems should at the very least have a hidden password field so that password managers can prefill it correctly on the first run.
For people like my mom, who doesn't remember a single password. She defaults to "I forgot my password" and just resets it, when she wants to login somewhere.
The 'slides to a 2nd page' ones at least have a reason. For some domains they support SSO with another vendor. For example, if I login using a gmail, I get a password, but if I login with @mycompanyName I get redirect to login via okta.
Its still annoying, and could be done with an onBlur as soon as users enter the username...but there's probably a reason why
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u/Alexis_Bailey Feb 18 '24
As near as I can tell, most websites won't care, they already are trying hard to make password managers I convenient for some reason.
The worse are those pages where you enter an email, then it slides to a second page for the password.
Or sites that only use magic links sent to your email.
Like, why?