Usernames removed to prevent brigading

  • ooterness@lemmy.worldEnglish
    421·
    3 hours ago

    Jokes aside, I have been blocked many times by overzealous email validation. Yes, my email has a plus sign in it. This is allowed under RFC5322, so deal with it. It is better to have no validation at all than incorrect validation.

    • Scoopta@programming.dev
      2·
      46 minutes ago

      Same although for a totally different reason. There are some services that really don’t like gtlds and they will say your address is invalid if it doesn’t end in .com, .net, or .org…all my serious domains are gtld…so some services have emails on meme domains because the only domains I have with traditional tlds are memes

    • dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de
      11·
      2 hours ago

      The worst sites are the ones that let you sign up with an unusual address but not log in. The worst I‘ve seen was some ticket system that rejected dfyx+theirdomain@mydomain after I clicked the link in their confirmation email.

      • FishFace@piefed.socialEnglish
        3·
        22 minutes ago

        There’s an aspect of my surname which is somewhat unusual (at least in my country). As a result I occasionally get form validation errors when entering it. Sometimes those errors are extremely inscrutable. Sometimes a form validates but something elsewhere makes unvalidated assumptions about names which then breaks in completely unpredictable names…

  • dohpaz42@lemmy.worldEnglish
    171·
    3 hours ago

    The issue this is referring to is because the user cannot paste into a text field. And the user was not rude about it either.

    So instead of fixing the actual problem, the developer went nuclear and removed the validation. A dick move in my opinion given the developer’s attitude.

    ~It’s more sad than funny. 🤷‍♂️~