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Show HN: Earn 9.62% on US Treasury I Bonds on Yotta

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Re: Show HN: Earn 9.62% on US Treasury I Bonds on Yotta

#13

Post by adammoelis »

brk wrote: post #10

My wife and I both bought I Bonds directly. It was not exactly a painful or confusing process at all. Granted, the UI/UX of the US government bonds website was not fantastic, but it was certainly usable.

Glad you didn't have to deal with any of Treasury Direct's nonsense. If you make a mistake logging in, you have to wait on hold with customer support for around 2 hours.

Re: Show HN: Earn 9.62% on US Treasury I Bonds on Yotta

#14

Post by adammoelis »

cantSpellSober wrote: post #12

They just updated the Treasury website in order to meet demand. You took away your value add for Point #1 by making this post, and Point #3 isn't really that hard anymore. Thank you for your transparency in advertising.

They only updated the front end main landing pages, not the core experience of opening accounts logging in, filling out forms, making mistakes. That is all the same as it's always been. Painful.

Re: Show HN: Earn 9.62% on US Treasury I Bonds on Yotta

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Post by joncfoo »

The virtual keyboard on the Treasury Direct login page is terrible, especially for those of us who use a password manager. I use the following bookmarklet that "types" each letter via the exposed JavaScript function on the page itself.

  javascript:prompt('treasurydirect.gov password please').split('').forEach(PasswordVK)
easy-peasy

Re: Show HN: Earn 9.62% on US Treasury I Bonds on Yotta

#18

Post by adammoelis »

joncfoo wrote: post #16

The virtual keyboard on the Treasury Direct login page is terrible, especially for those of us who use a password manager. I use the following bookmarklet that "types" each letter via the exposed JavaScript function on the page itself. javascript:prompt('treasurydirect.gov password please').split('').forEach(PasswordVK) easy-peasy

Does any other website in the world use a virtual keyboard like that? I don't really understand why they do it. To prevent keystroke tracking I guess? It's bizarre.
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