Multi-factor logins that account for dashes!

I tend to find myself being grumpy when it comes to web auth, let alone the broader field of modern web design. Such observations lend themselves to cranky blog posts where I pontificate on how and why it got so bad, and so on. So this time I want to address something a website did that was good! The site in question emailed me a multi-factor code (which isn’t good), which included a dash in the middle (which isn’t good), because the login form on the target site only had six boxes (which isn’t good). Something like this: 676-767 67! It’s the new Funny Number™ we’re all supposed to regurgitate instead of 69. At least, from what I’ve been told. I feel old. But I digress. Now at this point I wasn’t exactly looking forward to using this token in the resulting web form. I knew it wasn’t going to be the highlight of my day, but instead a minor irritation. I wouldn’t write in my journal before bed that I had a great experience interacting with a web form, nor would I insist a misguided…