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752 points dceddia | 2 comments | 23 Jun 23 14:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.849s | source
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verall ◴[23 Jun 23 14:36 UTC] No.36447353[source]▶
A lot of people are bringing up Wirth's law or other things, but I want to get more specific.

Has anyone else noticed how bad sign-on redirect flows have gotten in the past ~5 years?

It used to be you clicked sign in, and then you were redirected to a login page. Now I typically see my browser go through 4+ redirects, stuck at a white screen for 10-60 seconds.

I'm a systems C++ developer and I know nothing about webdev. Can someone _please_ fill me in on what's going on here and how every single website has this new slowness?

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billyjobob ◴[23 Jun 23 15:00 UTC] No.36447749[source]▶
A lot of sites now don't even a "sign in" now. You only have a large "sign up" button, which you have to click, and then in very small text at the bottom of the sign up screen find the link for "already have an account?"
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1. phist_mcgee ◴[23 Jun 23 22:51 UTC] No.36453286[source]▶
Guilty of implementing this exact thing only the other month.

"We" just assume that anyone who has already signed up will always be signed in.

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2. efreak ◴[24 Jun 23 19:39 UTC] No.36462011[source]▶
My mother signs out of her email every time she closes it, and does the same for other websites as well. She's the only one who uses her computer, and it has a password on it (mostly because Windows won't do file sharing without one). She still refuses to stay signed in.

Not everyone wants to stay logged in, and not everyone uses a single browser; I occasionally use the wrong browser profile for something because I cbf loading up the correct one; in these cases I usually load the website in a private browsing tab to avoid container/addon settings interfering. When I can't log in easily, I get quite annoyed.