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Re: The bad case of Hacker News authentication usability design

#11

Post by temphn » Sat, May 12, 2012, 2:18 PM UTC

The other thing is that the login page is http rather than https.

Re: The bad case of Hacker News authentication usability design

#12

Post by MaxGabriel » Sat, May 12, 2012, 2:18 PM UTC

By the way, you cannot zoom in or out on your website using an iPhone. This makes it very hard to read.

Re: The bad case of Hacker News authentication usability design

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Post by mratzloff » Sat, May 12, 2012, 2:21 PM UTC

Speaking of usability... your site doesn't scale on my iPhone, so I only see about 30% of the screen width and have to do a lot of scrolling to read anything.

Re: The bad case of Hacker News authentication usability design

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Post by nsmartt » Sat, May 12, 2012, 2:26 PM UTC

citricsquid wrote: post #2

> Before I unintentionally start a flame war This statement would be needed if anyone thought HN was an example of good design and usability, I don't think I've ever seen a comment here claim that, it seems everyone acknowledges that HN was built to work (as in, do the very minimum it can to exist) and nothing more. The lack of polish with HN is part of the charm really.

>The lack of polish with HN is part of the charm really.

I do agree with that. However, there's a big difference between polish and usability. The lack of polish may be charming, but usability flaws are anything but charming.

Re: The bad case of Hacker News authentication usability design

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Post by tuananh » Sat, May 12, 2012, 2:34 PM UTC

punjsingh wrote: post #6

recoiledsnake wrote: post #5

Why not just create a new account and move on? Unless I am missing something.

Because I have an invitation associated with the old account that I needed to RSVP.

While I agree with your post, you definitely need a password manager app.

Re: The bad case of Hacker News authentication usability design

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Post by ohgodthecat » Sat, May 12, 2012, 2:36 PM UTC

temphn wrote: post #11

The other thing is that the login page is http rather than https.

It does support https, such as if you use https-everywhere which now works on chrome.

Re: The bad case of Hacker News authentication usability design

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Post by raldi » Sat, May 12, 2012, 2:44 PM UTC

Mmm, a lecture on usability from a site that can't be read on an iPhone.

Re: The bad case of Hacker News authentication usability design

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Post by punjsingh » Sat, May 12, 2012, 2:44 PM UTC

mratzloff wrote: post #13

Speaking of usability... your site doesn't scale on my iPhone, so I only see about 30% of the screen width and have to do a lot of scrolling to read anything.

Thanks for pointing that out. Responsive CSS pending.

Re: The bad case of Hacker News authentication usability design

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Post by k33l0r » Sat, May 12, 2012, 2:51 PM UTC

ohgodthecat wrote: post #16

temphn wrote: post #11

The other thing is that the login page is http rather than https.

It does support https, such as if you use https-everywhere which now works on chrome.

If you don't want to install a third party extension, you can also manually add domains to the HSTS* set via chrome://net-internals/#hsts

* HTTPS Strict Transport Security http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Strict_Transport_Security

Re: The bad case of Hacker News authentication usability design

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Post by j45 » Sat, May 12, 2012, 2:55 PM UTC

I don't really come to hacker news for usability or design. Mainly for content.