Facebook's new signup process. It looks like they’ve dropped the “enter your password twice” pattern. Is this really a good idea? I suppose if people mis-type it they can always use forgotten password to set a new one.
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If we never challenged an existing decision, nothing would ever change.
I think so long interface appropriately highlights the 'forgot your password' link - I doubt it'd have much impact.
If you felt squeamish about the change though - you could collect some simple statistics to find out how many times incorrect password/.. events happen and base it on that.
Al - 12th December 2008 14:17 - #
It suddenly seems utterly obvious in retrospect to look at server logs and find out what proportion of people don't type the same password twice..
It'd be nice if password inputs had a "Show password" option like the AirPort WEP/WPA dialog. 99% of the time, the only person my password gets hidden from is myself.
phl - 12th December 2008 16:07 - #
...assuming they entered their email address correctly.
(My keyboard occasionally drops 'z', so I have to be careful on sites that don't ask twice.)
Actually I've seen a lot of my friends just copy-paste the password into the "confirm password" box. And that pretty much defeats the purpose of this mechanism anyways.
Harish Mallipeddi - 13th December 2008 09:20 - #