How do seemingly little issues handle to eat a lot time?! We had a suggestion this week that as a substitute of having the ability to login to the brand new HIBP web site, you must as a substitute be capable of log in. This initially confused me as a result of I have been used to logging on to issues for many years:
So, I went and signed in (yep, totally different once more) to X and requested the plenty what the right time period was:
When accessing your @haveibeenpwned dashboard, which of the next do you have to do? Preview display screen for reference: https://t.co/9gqfr8hZrY
— Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) April 23, 2025
Which did not end in a conclusive victor, so, I began shopping round.
Cloudflare’s Zero Belief docs comprise details about customising the login web page, which I assume you are able to do when you log in:
One other, uh, “well-liked” web site prompts you to log in:
After which you are invited to sign up:
You possibly can log in to Canva, which is clearly indicated by the HTML title, which suggests you are on the login web page:
You possibly can go browsing to the Commonwealth Financial institution down right here in Australia:
However the login web page for ANZ financial institution requires to log in, until you’ve got forgotten your login particulars:
Ah, however many of those are simply the distinction between the noun “login” (the web page is a factor) and the verb “log in” (while you carry out an motion), proper? Properly… relies upon who you financial institution with
And possibly you do not log in or login in any respect:
Lastly, from the darkness of seemingly interchangeable phrases which will or might not violate ideas of English language, emerged a sample. You additionally sign up to Google:
And Microsoft:
And Amazon:
And Yahoo:
And, as I discussed earlier, X:
And now, Have I Been Pwned:
There are some notable exceptions (Fb and ChatGPT, for instance), however “sign up” did emerge because the frontrunner among the many world’s hottest websites. If I actually begin to overthink it, I do really feel that “log[whatever]” implies one thing totally different to why we authenticate to methods as we speak and is extra a remnant of a bygone period. However frankly, that argument might be no extra legitimate than whether or not you are doing a verb factor or a noun factor.
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