On Mar 29, 2014 12:17 AM, "Jon Robson" <jrobson@wikimedia.org> wrote:

> That said I think my problem here is that in my opinion the current design could be done better. The show/hide button in the right side of the input field that yahoo tried out looks like it might be a better pattern to follow and might be worth exploring as in my opinion it is much more explicit.

That is May's actual design. I just haven't gotten around to implementing it yet. Preliminary implementation in the create account screen.

> Anyway I'm not a designer but changing my passwords because of this was an annoying experience which made me feel dumb and didn't endear me to the app. I'd hate someone else to have this experience even if I'm a picky minority :)

In this case it was just an incomplete implementation :) I'll ping this thread again when it is properly done.