<story><title>Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?</title><text>Here is a screenshot of my Bitwarden: https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;imgur.com&amp;#x2F;a&amp;#x2F;UdG7Inb&lt;p&gt;They include some really important things such as:&lt;p&gt;Health insurance
G-Suite for work
Bill.com (which I use to get paid)
IRS.gov (which I use to get un-paid)
UK Companies House Register
Interactive Brokers
My bank&lt;p&gt;Obviously, anything with OAuth is &amp;quot;bundled&amp;quot; into my Google account. So if anything this is a huge underestimate.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m asking because of how insane auth has become. I know companies like OnePassword and Bitwarden are working on this and overall they do a great job. But I still have a near-stroke every time I have to do the &amp;quot;forgot my password&amp;quot; loop, or use Duo Mobile&amp;#x2F;other 2FA.&lt;p&gt;The only really good auth feature I&amp;#x27;ve ever encountered has been Apple&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;fill from Messages&amp;quot; feature as well as their Touch.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>akira2501</author><text>If I need to login to your site less than once or twice a year,  &amp;quot;Forgot my password&amp;quot; is my password manager.  Personally,  I feel that the utility of me working to keep and maintain that information in a database for high availability is essentially zero.&lt;p&gt;As a result,  I store very few accounts overall and checking out as &amp;quot;guest&amp;quot; hasn&amp;#x27;t been a problem of any sort.  There&amp;#x27;s like 10 critical things that I feel the need to store the password on and they all use a hardware key for 2fa anyways.&lt;p&gt;For the two accounts that I absolutely can&amp;#x27;t lose access to,  I just used the &amp;quot;Correct Horse Battery Staple&amp;quot; method and came up with two very long and secure passwords that I have no trouble remembering.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Narushia</author><text>I don’t think there’s really any “maintaining” to be done when I sign in to a new service that I won’t be using often. Complete the sign-in page → Bitwarden asks me if I want to save the credentials → click yes. That’s it. I can auto-fill that the next time I log in.</text></comment>
<story><title>Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?</title><text>Here is a screenshot of my Bitwarden: https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;imgur.com&amp;#x2F;a&amp;#x2F;UdG7Inb&lt;p&gt;They include some really important things such as:&lt;p&gt;Health insurance
G-Suite for work
Bill.com (which I use to get paid)
IRS.gov (which I use to get un-paid)
UK Companies House Register
Interactive Brokers
My bank&lt;p&gt;Obviously, anything with OAuth is &amp;quot;bundled&amp;quot; into my Google account. So if anything this is a huge underestimate.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m asking because of how insane auth has become. I know companies like OnePassword and Bitwarden are working on this and overall they do a great job. But I still have a near-stroke every time I have to do the &amp;quot;forgot my password&amp;quot; loop, or use Duo Mobile&amp;#x2F;other 2FA.&lt;p&gt;The only really good auth feature I&amp;#x27;ve ever encountered has been Apple&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;fill from Messages&amp;quot; feature as well as their Touch.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>akira2501</author><text>If I need to login to your site less than once or twice a year,  &amp;quot;Forgot my password&amp;quot; is my password manager.  Personally,  I feel that the utility of me working to keep and maintain that information in a database for high availability is essentially zero.&lt;p&gt;As a result,  I store very few accounts overall and checking out as &amp;quot;guest&amp;quot; hasn&amp;#x27;t been a problem of any sort.  There&amp;#x27;s like 10 critical things that I feel the need to store the password on and they all use a hardware key for 2fa anyways.&lt;p&gt;For the two accounts that I absolutely can&amp;#x27;t lose access to,  I just used the &amp;quot;Correct Horse Battery Staple&amp;quot; method and came up with two very long and secure passwords that I have no trouble remembering.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>slt2021</author><text>problem is that sometimes these websites takes forever to send password recovery email.&lt;p&gt;especially if they use some sort of cheap cloud service to send email&amp;#x2F;sms, then it can take 15-20 minutes to receive password reset link&lt;p&gt;have you not encountered cases like these?</text></comment>