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tonyarkles
on Dec 1, 2014
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“Invalid username or password” is a useless securi...
You'd be surprised... After removing the "type it twice" box during registration, the bounce rate of "welcome" emails went up quite a bit.
rocketbop
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That's interesting. I always felt that repeating that field was a sort of faux validation, but maybe not!
Well, a lot of people do not know their own phone number.
shdon
on Dec 2, 2014
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I've seen mistype rates of close to 20% without the second field. Still, my boss won't allow me to put in the second field because he feels it would hurt the user experience.
hamiltonkibbe
on Dec 1, 2014
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Just did that with a password the other day. At least I didn't mistype both my email and password when signing up...
mikeryan
on Dec 1, 2014
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But what happened to your conversion rate?
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