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Former web dev here, you’re… right :-/ the only thing that angers me more than this pattern is when they decide to fuck up scrolling
My most hated one is not allowing me to right-click to open a context menu, or even worse, making right-click act the same as left-click, redirecting me to some page I never intended to go to.
Crazy to add complexity like this.
I'm curious if there's a reason this six-cell mechanism has become the defacto? It seems this should just be a single input field styled appropriately, but it feels like there must be an underlying reason I'm missing.
I'm curious if there's a reason this six-cell mechanism has become the defacto? It seems this should just be a single input field styled appropriately, but it feels like there must be an underlying reason I'm missing.
Anecdotally, this seems to be the case on the majority of websites where I have to use such 2FA codes.
I'm curious if there's a reason this six-cell mechanism has become the defacto? It seems this should just be a single input field styled appropriately, but it feels like there must be an underlying reason I'm missing.
- Six boxes communicate “== six digits, != password” (try to imagine the least tech-savvy user)
- Some people might not be able to quickly hold six digits in their head at once (especially seems to be the case with older people, from my experience), so seeing “I’ve already got two/three/four” visually is potentially an efficiency boost. This also correlates (again, just from my anecdotal experience) with the population that doesn’t have a password manager handling 2FA for them automatically…
- This is probably down to preference, but IMO it also feels faster somehow than a single input field with six digits, when it works properly (with the caveat that it feels much worse/slower if it doesn’t work)
- Now that everyone does it, you’re kinda forced to adopt it as well for recognizability.
But it’s an interesting question – we can’t ever imagine entering postal ZIP codes like that and yet that’s an area where it’d actually make more sense since there’s usually some notion of “more significant” digits at the start vs. end, so you could perhaps do some cool tricks with regard to pre-filtering state, city etc. names. Whereas OTP codes are (AFAIK) essentially fully random digits with no meaningful distinction.
On their website, when I enter a digit, the cursor advances to the next input box automatically. Deleting a digit with backspace also jumps back to the previous box. Seems to work perfectly for me. Maybe fixed since yesterday?
I'm not so surprised, given that you cannot write support tickets if the bug prevents you from registering...
Also, I don't think people have high hopes that a broken government website will ever get fixed.