"log in" and "sign up" buttons

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this is a rant about microsoft

how on the fucking earth are you the biggest company and have hands down the worst login imaginable. you know for a fact people have multiple accounts for your platform, it's incredibly common to have a work specific micorosoft account after all. AND YET you lock in a specific email for login??? and you don't even put a bloody "i'd like to log in with a different email"???? oh there's a "use a different login method" button it's all okay right? wrong that button still doesn't let you change the login email! but now you can log in with a code sent to it :).

what if that """""convenience"""" you're trying to give people by checks notes, not including an incredibly common button that takes you to the default login page without a specific email baked into it, is actually an impossible pain in the ass? what if that email is someone else's and then just hit the "remember me" out of habit? go fuck yourself :). go into the browser setting and manually delete the cookies or if you can't or don't know how to do that then just fuck yourself :)

not to even fucking mention how if you try to log into teams desktop client app that info is going to get fucking applied to the entire windows account??? without asking about it clearly either it just fucking does that! it just fucking links to your local account instsntly

who asked for that microsoft? what deranged motherfucker in your board of directors came in high off his tits and uttered the cursed phrases needed for those feature to fucking exist?

and is that guy the only one allowed to speak? the only who's vocabulary extends past "great idea! let's do that"?

how is your user account management worse and more annoying than any virus i had?

i literally just needed to log in to someone's account once, for an hour, to substitute for them in one call. and that silly little action has taken fucking hours to undo, and all done with force "how to delete someone else's email from microsoft login"? delete your fucking cookies or team cache. "how to unlink a microsoft account from windows"? don't forget to input your pc password! dw about how we didn't ask for it when we just linked it to your local account, you need it now :) oh and unlinking isn't removing, you gotta do that one too!

there has been genuinely nothing else in the past decade that has made me more frustrated, more fucking seething with anger, than dealing with the fallout of needing to use someone else's microsoft account for an hour

started creating accounts with my previous landlord's name and addresses. I'm VERY forthcoming with his info. I'm not even pro-privacy anymore, I'm just Greg McKenna of Albuquerque NM. eat up, data collectors. enjoy, Church of Scientology. mmmmmmm that's right, yum yum 🥰

Yeah it's weird when websites show the sign up button, but hide the log in button inside some little shit of a menu.

Like... are people coming back to your website after signing up...? I would have thought that repeat log ins would be the more common use case by far.

I don't remember which website, but there is one where both sign-up and log-in pages look the same. If you fill your username and password in the sign-up page, but you already have that account they log you in instead. If you put the details in the log-in page but that account doesn't exist they send you to the full sign-up page.

I thought that's pretty neat.

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Back in my day, the BBS forum would send you an email with your username and a password they chose, and you could change it later if you wanted to, but nobody ever did.

At this point giving them some bones might be preferable. I'm sure there have to be SOME extra bones in here somewhere.

some of the more obnoxious sites never actually removed the old www.tumblr.com/login. Poke around with your site of choice, there's probably a legacy login that would have been more work than it was worth to remove.

I write my email in the login field but my password manager doesn't show me a password. I click "i forgor" button. Now I must type my email again. No one knows why.

Maybe boring manager Rob should have written god damn login page himself after all.

I wish more people would use Gopher.

Create a cool alternative web that isn't filled with harmful degeneracy (looking at you, Tor. I2P ur cool though). I don't think JavaScript in its essence was toxic to the web, like how one snort of heroine isn't technically a killing thing. But it got addicted and all and dragged is down with its demise.

DrivebyRPG... Looking at you.