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Re:“Magic links” can end up in Bing search results, renderin... by asdfqwertzxcv on Monday June 27, 2022 @11:15PM (#31903693)
This. You'd be amazed how many users just do a password reset each time to login instead of remembering their login info.
Re:“Magic links” can end up in Bing search results, renderin... by chalupa-man on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @08:13AM (#31906682)
My father has insisted on doing this for over 20 years, but he doesn't know how to do it himself. I expect a password-reset phone call from him every 2 or 3 days and have done since 1998. Just recently he had someone from his bank's IT department call him directly about resetting his password over 500 times.
Re:“Magic links” can end up in Bing search results, renderin... by exikyut on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @03:51PM (#31912194)
I'm not sure if he's still doing it but someone put together https://theuserisdrunk.com/ and https://theuserismymom.com/ a few years back... I wonder if you could do something similar here, given the level of absolute predictability that seems to be involved.

I sadly can't put my finger on what's so compelling about this, just that my "oh that person should talk to a UX team lead!" meter just went plink