LOVE the new homepage. This place is really getting a facelift… One recommendation: please autofocus the input box so one can begin typing IMMEDIATELY. There is no time to waste in this world.
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Hey Scott,
Thanks a ton for the feedback! We actually went ahead and built that feature—yep, because of your suggestion. 
Now the search bar on the homepage has autofocus, so you can start typing right away without that extra click. One less tap, one more win. Hope it makes things a little smoother.
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Thank you! Happy to serve 
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Very nice design. Please provide dark mode.
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If you’re on mobile, just tap the toggle at the bottom of the page.
On desktop? It’s hanging out in the bottom-left corner.
Flip that tab and—boom—you’re in dark mode.
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I love the new look! Today was the first day I discovered it, after not having used etymonline for several months - I was not even aware of a login feature prior to today Due to my love of the site, I decided to go ahead and create an account by loggin in. My first attempt at login was to use my email - but it didn’t work. Instead I got an error message. I was able to log in using my google account, however. Perhaps this is just a temporary glitch? This attempt was on a desktop - the error occurred both in the Brave browser (which is based on Chrome) and in Microsoft Edge.
It looks rather like new issue: today for the first time in over an year, as I tried to log in with my E-mail (I buried my google account 12 years ago and never regretted it), I was confronted with an error message followed by an endless series of confounded captchas.
After the 17th captcha I run out of patience, clicked away, changed my IP address (I’m on VPN) and tried again: this time I was lucky and got my entry code e-mailed after only 5 captchas, so here I am.
This poses a problem: I’m old enough not to find particularly appealing the notion of spending whatever little time I’ve left guessing for hours on end whether the cyclist is part of the bike, or the pole of the traffic light, or if that tiny blurred spot is a car or a pidgeon dropping.
Thus if you don’t hear from me anymore, at least now you know why… 
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