dumb things on websites really annoy me, mainly because i use websites but also because I build them! so I wrote a blog post on the first of many that annoy me: max character counts on password fields

i'm curious though if there's anything other annoying things on websites people have encountered. please post them whether they be horrible design or really bad UX

Good thread idea :)

In a similar vein, why is it that banks, who'd arguably have to have the least stupid requirements, are always the ones who have the most onerous, nonsensical password requirements?

can't be longer than 10 characters, please use weird characters EXCEPT these randomly chosen weird characters

FUCK YOU I'LL USE EMOJIS JUST TO TEST YOUR DOCUMENT TYPE

also when they don't let you paste into the password field like cmon man i'm not spending 10 minutes typing this random string of characters by hand

Those are atrocious. Being restrictive on passwords already leads to reuse, so restrictions that make it easier to crack are inexcusable.

I hate when text fields don't let you tab between them. Type - Tab - Type is much faster than Type - Move hand over to mouse - Click - Move hand back to keyboard - Type.

Maybe just as annoying is butting buttons between username and password. I remember a website whose login page looked like: Username - Help I can't login - Password - Forgot password, so I would always type my username, press tab which would highlight the Forgot Password button, type my password and press enter. So every single time I would go to the Can't Login page.

It's silly but the reason behind the banks having strict password requirements (max char, only alpha numeric) is because they are still on mainframe systems where the password field is a fixed length char often plaintext.