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Re: Tell HN: Somebody implemented something I wrote a blog about

#141

If any Spotify devs are here, please let me explore and add songs, artists and albums to my library without “hearting” it. I often just want to follow up later by “adding to my library,” and it feels weird to “LOVE” it before ever hearing it. I really feel pain when I hear something terrible that I’ve already “liked” and consider the impacts to my algorithm. Please distinguish between “like” and “save.” A simple “plu…

If there is a feature I want to see on Spotify is a easier way to see my friends playlists.

Re: Tell HN: Somebody implemented something I wrote a blog about

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> leak whether or not a password is correct Errm, could you elaborate what is the issue here?

If you input a username and wrong password, in some cases, the service won't prompt you for your 2FA code. If you input the right username and password, it will then go forward in the flow and prompt you for the 2FA. I believe parent comment is suggesting the system should prompt for 2FA even if the password was incorrect, so that you can't infer whether you guessed the correct password without also compromising the…

Well, doesn't it also matter if the 2FA method sucks? For example, maybe you can use a SIM swap to get the one-time code, but if you don't have the password, too, then that doesn't help you. In the above scenario, they can figure out whether they have the password or not, and once they do, then use a SIM swap to get the second factor (or whatever), and then they're in. If the login never tells them which factor is bad, it's a bit harder, right?

Re: Tell HN: Somebody implemented something I wrote a blog about

#143

Years back, every web browser's built-in password manager locked up the page when submitting a login form, waiting for the user to answer "do you want to save this password?" before proceeding. I thought that was silly: how do I know if I want to save the password before I've seen whether it's correct? Which I can't see until the form is submitted. At the time I was using Opera, so I wrote in to their customer suppor…

Opera was the most innovative web browser ever. They brought so many new things to the world of web browsing. Tabbed-browsing, mouse gestures, colored tabs, browser themes, in-built security integration with anti-virus software, an extensible browser - so many wonderful innovative features. It was a paid software initially, but then they made it free for everyone. I used to use it as my default browser, maybe 13-15 y…

Spatial navigation is a feature I really do miss. I don't think any other browser supports this. It made keyboard-based browsing possible without resorting to stuff like hit-a-hint. You could just hit Shift+Arrow Key (which I mapped to the home row) and select a the nearest link (or anything interactive) in that direction. I think it worked in a visual fashion so order in the DOM didn't matter at all. It behaves exactly like one would expect.

Re: Tell HN: Somebody implemented something I wrote a blog about

#144

If any Spotify devs are here, please let me explore and add songs, artists and albums to my library without “hearting” it. I often just want to follow up later by “adding to my library,” and it feels weird to “LOVE” it before ever hearing it. I really feel pain when I hear something terrible that I’ve already “liked” and consider the impacts to my algorithm. Please distinguish between “like” and “save.” A simple “plu…

While we have Spotify's ear: why is the default behavior to clear my queue if I play another song? It's especially an issue on mobile, where viewing a playlist or album means that an errant tap almost anywhere on the screen undoes all of my queueing so far. Just a toast with an 'Undo' button whenever the queue is erased would be plenty.

Re: Tell HN: Somebody implemented something I wrote a blog about

#145
post #141

If any Spotify devs are here, please let me explore and add songs, artists and albums to my library without “hearting” it. I often just want to follow up later by “adding to my library,” and it feels weird to “LOVE” it before ever hearing it. I really feel pain when I hear something terrible that I’ve already “liked” and consider the impacts to my algorithm. Please distinguish between “like” and “save.” A simple “plu…

If there is a feature I want to see on Spotify is a easier way to see my friends playlists.

I'd be happy with just being able to consistently access my own playlists and currently playing queue on Android. I swear it's a coin flip whether the button appears or not.

Re: Tell HN: Somebody implemented something I wrote a blog about

#146
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I agree but there is an even more serious security feature almost all 2FA misses: Telling the user what action they are authorizing by reading back the numbers. That “bank rep” on the phone? They are probably trying to log into your account, or withdraw cash, not verify that you are the right person to send the refund back to. It would save a lot of problems. Also you should be getting an alert on all your devices wh…

Yes, that's a cool feature - the Smart-ID app used by many banks in Baltic countries as a second factor does that, it states e.g. the payment and amount you're authorizing before you do so.

Re: Tell HN: Somebody implemented something I wrote a blog about

#147

Years back, every web browser's built-in password manager locked up the page when submitting a login form, waiting for the user to answer "do you want to save this password?" before proceeding. I thought that was silly: how do I know if I want to save the password before I've seen whether it's correct? Which I can't see until the form is submitted. At the time I was using Opera, so I wrote in to their customer suppor…

I found a bug in firefox where the two letters of the weekdays appeared as 3 letters for portuguese (pt-PT). Eventually found that it was an error in the unicode standard, so submited the proposal for change. Probably there's dozen of people involved in this... but seeing it being changed brought me great joy. I was a tiny part in changing a tiny mostly irrelevant detail that was causing a slight inconvenience to mil…

This is great! Imagine how many people had no idea how to get something like that fixed yet noticed the bug.

Re: Tell HN: Somebody implemented something I wrote a blog about

#148
post #100

If any Spotify devs are here, please let me explore and add songs, artists and albums to my library without “hearting” it. I often just want to follow up later by “adding to my library,” and it feels weird to “LOVE” it before ever hearing it. I really feel pain when I hear something terrible that I’ve already “liked” and consider the impacts to my algorithm. Please distinguish between “like” and “save.” A simple “plu…

Now that you opened this forum for Spotify feedback: If I do "like/heart" a few songs and then go to the Radio based on one of them, please don't show the songs I already liked in that Radio. I mean, I already "liked/saved" them, why are they appearing in my discovery phase?

I'd like to have a different tiny change in the "Song Radio" feature: if you start playing that playlist, skip the song it's based on if it was recently played or is currently playing. It's mildly annoying when you switch to that feature after stumbling across an interesting track and the first thing you hear is the same track again.

Re: Tell HN: Somebody implemented something I wrote a blog about

#149

Years back, every web browser's built-in password manager locked up the page when submitting a login form, waiting for the user to answer "do you want to save this password?" before proceeding. I thought that was silly: how do I know if I want to save the password before I've seen whether it's correct? Which I can't see until the form is submitted. At the time I was using Opera, so I wrote in to their customer suppor…

And now we’ve come full-circle as 1Password 8 requires you to save your password prior to submitting the form instead of offering to save it after submission. Which is a huge regression as it results in this exact issue all over again.

https://support.1password.com/save-fill-passwords/

Re: Tell HN: Somebody implemented something I wrote a blog about

#150

Years back, every web browser's built-in password manager locked up the page when submitting a login form, waiting for the user to answer "do you want to save this password?" before proceeding. I thought that was silly: how do I know if I want to save the password before I've seen whether it's correct? Which I can't see until the form is submitted. At the time I was using Opera, so I wrote in to their customer suppor…

If only Roku and Android TV boxes had a way to display pdf's on the TV!

Hint hint hint!!!

After all, they can display movies, pictures, and music. PDFs, please! I'd even pay for it.

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