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Re: Authy is joining Twilio

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Post by realityloop »

kmfrk wrote: post #59
zacwest wrote: post #34

> "There are few companies who share our dedication to excellence…" Authy is one of the worst-designed iOS applications I have ever used. It has been this way for a very long time. They are actively hostile to people who try to criticize their poor design choices. I would not classify it as "dedicated to excellence." CloudFlare forces me to keep it installed, so I have to interact with it on occasion. If you have mor…

Has anyone gotten the Bluetooth stuff to work on OS X? I tried hard, but never managed to. To be fair, Bluetooth pairing between iOS and OS X hasn't been the most pleasant experience in general. -- Authy is a fine app, but the main selling point to me has basically always been the typical "anything but Google's half-abandoned BS".

It's been deprecated in favor of a chrome plugin.. Which alone sux for FF users like myself..

Re: Authy is joining Twilio

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Post by sleepyhead »

kmfrk wrote: post #59
zacwest wrote: post #34

> "There are few companies who share our dedication to excellence…" Authy is one of the worst-designed iOS applications I have ever used. It has been this way for a very long time. They are actively hostile to people who try to criticize their poor design choices. I would not classify it as "dedicated to excellence." CloudFlare forces me to keep it installed, so I have to interact with it on occasion. If you have mor…

Has anyone gotten the Bluetooth stuff to work on OS X? I tried hard, but never managed to. To be fair, Bluetooth pairing between iOS and OS X hasn't been the most pleasant experience in general. -- Authy is a fine app, but the main selling point to me has basically always been the typical "anything but Google's half-abandoned BS".

No it just doesn't work. It is still available on the Mac App Store and when I contacted them on Twitter they said "oh, we will look into the problem you are having" but at the same time their website says it says the OSX app is discontinued due to bugs in OSX Bluetooth driver https://authy.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/202760296-Having...

I would not trust such liars with credentials to my most important services.

Re: Authy is joining Twilio

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Post by dollaaron »

sleepyhead wrote: post #63
danielpal wrote: post #3

Founder of @Authy here. Happy to answer any questions.

Why do you refuse to delete accounts? It is my data and I want it to be removed. How can I feel safe about my data if I cannot remove it if I choose not to continue using your service.

I would also really like to hear an answer to this question.

Re: Authy is joining Twilio

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Post by rtpg »

feld wrote: post #20
rtpg wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You do realise that with authy you're just registering TOTP stuff right? It's not on the same level as what you're mentioning. It's like complaining about having to use Firefox instead of google.com

Then why do they need an account or my phone number to do TOTP?

they don't, but they want to have a way to verify who you are for things like the sync feature. Even if you don't want to use the feature.

This is a pretty good example of not doing something because it represents a minority and would make onboarding more difficult for their actual value-add.

Re: Authy is joining Twilio

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Post by dpatriarche »

kmfrk wrote: post #59
zacwest wrote: post #34

> "There are few companies who share our dedication to excellence…" Authy is one of the worst-designed iOS applications I have ever used. It has been this way for a very long time. They are actively hostile to people who try to criticize their poor design choices. I would not classify it as "dedicated to excellence." CloudFlare forces me to keep it installed, so I have to interact with it on occasion. If you have mor…

Has anyone gotten the Bluetooth stuff to work on OS X? I tried hard, but never managed to. To be fair, Bluetooth pairing between iOS and OS X hasn't been the most pleasant experience in general. -- Authy is a fine app, but the main selling point to me has basically always been the typical "anything but Google's half-abandoned BS".

I use the MAS version of the Authy BT app. It pairs correctly about 90% of the time. The remaining 10% it refuses to pair up, even with the iOS app open, but I'm pretty sure that's Apple's buggy BT drivers, not Authy. That 10% failure is a minor annoyance, but (90% of the time) the convenience of being able to easily paste codes into my browser already make the UX much better than Google Authenticator.

Re: Authy is joining Twilio

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Post by A_COMPUTER »

rtpg wrote: post #13
feld wrote: post #2

What is the reason for all of these 2FA apps? This is completely unnecessary. If you're going to offer 2FA, please offer at least the following: * TOTP * Yubikey * SMS If you want to partner with someone and ram unnecessary apps down our throats, optionally add the following: * Authy * RSA * etc I have places where I want 2FA but I will not install the Authy app, so I go without. Sorry. Let me use TOTP or my Yubikey.

You do realise that with authy you're just registering TOTP stuff right? It's not on the same level as what you're mentioning. It's like complaining about having to use Firefox instead of google.com

Because Cloudflare requires Authy, not TOTP. It's a pain in my ass because Cloudflare doesn't have sub-accounts and I have more than one person managing a Cloudflare account, but Authy is locked to one device. So as a result I can't turn on two-factor on my Cloudflare account.

Re: Authy is joining Twilio

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Post by tomphoolery »

zacwest wrote: post #34

> "There are few companies who share our dedication to excellence…" Authy is one of the worst-designed iOS applications I have ever used. It has been this way for a very long time. They are actively hostile to people who try to criticize their poor design choices. I would not classify it as "dedicated to excellence." CloudFlare forces me to keep it installed, so I have to interact with it on occasion. If you have mor…

What's your issue with Authy's UI? I switched to Authy from Google Authenticator because I didn't like its boring UI. Authy is a lot easier to use, from my perspective anyway.

Re: Authy is joining Twilio

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Post by carl689 »

bdcravens wrote: post #41
faet wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you not updated in a while? For me it works fine. I see all the icons for all of my services all the time. Click the one I want and get the number. No Scrolling required. Current screenshot http://i.imgur.com/EzNc2g9.jpg

If you use many services, often with the same company (say multiple Google accounts) it doesn't look that clean; you have many repeating icons. Many of which, you'll get a generic key (if only they'd let me add a custom icon). Then you're stuck with reading that tiny font, which requires several seconds of scanning, even on a 6 Plus.

When I open Authy I have a button on the top that toggles from a large text list view and the large icon view.
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