[cschep]

Calling it unusable seems like unnecessary hyperbole. That said, it does seem like a step backwards! Do these things get A/B'd with static signup pages? Surely they are going to lose some signups for this. Maybe they don't care!

[cosmotic]

If the text box loses focus (for example, by clicking anywhere else on the page), there's no indication there even exists a text box. The form becomes completely unusable and you would need to reload the page. Even clicking the disabled-but-cursor-indicated-clickable continue button doesn't refocus or provide any feedback the form is incomplete or does it refocus the text box.

[kitsune_]

I visited it on a 4 year old macbook pro and my fan started to go crazy because of the bg animation. UI was sluggish as well.

[tablespoon]

> I visited it on a 4 year old macbook pro and my fan started to go crazy because of the bg animation. UI was sluggish as well.

Come on, it's 2023. It's more than reasonable to expect all your users to have a login-form accelerator in their PC. If you're not keeping up to date, the fault is with you, not the web developer. /s

[mattigames]

Maybe it's on purpose and it's an strategy to annoy poor developers, the most likely to pay for premium features are the ones with disposable income, not the poor ones (in the short term at least), just half-joking, it is Microsoft we are talking about here after all.

[sshine]

They certainly lost my second signup!