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by jlarocco 4671 days ago
That page is really hard to use. Some times the guessing works, some times it doesn't. There's no feedback whether it's working or not. Hitting forfeit brings up a red box that covers the input field and the forfeit button.

It would have been more intuitive and less work on their part to have "guess" and "forfeit" buttons.

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Yeah, if you click that "?" image on the upper right, it explains how it works. Most unusual UI I've ever seen. That text field should just have a button called "submit". That would be the most obvious thing to do.
It's unusual, but really quick to use with just the keyboard once you get used to it. And the people who are going to do well know how to adjust to new ways of thinking that get certain things done better anyway :P
Looks like a lot of people are complaining about the bad user interface which seems too clever for its own good. But what do they know?

The emperor is naked, man!

At the moment, no.
It is also broken on TLS. But to be fair, the ? text says " If it seems borked, your guess is wrong. "