Usernames removed to prevent brigading

  • mogranja@lemmy.eco.br
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    4 hours ago

    I hate when websites have some weird rules for passwords, and show the rule when you are creating the password, but not when entering it. How am I supposed to remember the password must begin and end with a special character?

  • ooterness@lemmy.world
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    19 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.

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      7 hours ago

      Even worse is when they strip the plus sign out after the fact and then you can’t log in anymore because you didn’t realize that’s what has happened.

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        43 minutes ago

        Yees this has happened to me before but with passwords. They have some length limit that they clamp to so you can’t login after registering and I have to do a password reset right after signing up. Happened multiple times to me.

      • filcuk@lemmy.zip
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        7 hours ago

        This is criminal. You already send me a validation email, just check for an @ and leave me be

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      16 hours ago

      The best email validation is just sending an email to whatever provided by the user. If user receives an email and validates it, than its validated.

      • kunaltyagi@programming.dev
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        5 hours ago

        Email address spec is convoluted and this is indeed the best way. Noobs and ninja do it this way, normies try to validate before sending email

      • Scrollone@feddit.it
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        7 hours ago

        No, I think they just blocked Proton email addresses. I’ve seen multiple services doing that.

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      18 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.

    • traxex@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      15 hours ago

      Not sure if you also do aliases as well but I’ve seen an increase in websites flagging providers like addy.io as well. Extremely annoying that so many websites think they are so important that they refuse an alias.

      • borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        10 hours ago

        I had a site refuse my email address for my .net domain. Like wtf, if it’s not .com it’s not a real email address? Idk what that was about.

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      16 hours 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

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    18 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. 🤷‍♂️~

    • dogs0n@sh.itjust.works
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      I’m guessing removing the validation fixed the pasting, which means it did fix the actual problem?

    • wheezy@lemmy.ml
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      7 hours ago

      I don’t know what that repo does. But, chances are the dude was just fucking tired of dealing with curseforge. Total garbage scum software.

    • theit8514@lemmy.world
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      14 hours ago

      IMO as a developer this is a sane change. There’s no telling when the format of the first-party api key will change. They may switch from reference tokens to JWT tokens tomorrow. The validation should be using the token and seeing if it works.

      • Dupelet@piefed.social
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        7 hours ago

        If they had made the change for that reason, sure. But the actual stated cause was some pretty thing.

  • Phoenix3875@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    So the users realized their mistakes and stopped complaining……and other jokes public project maintainers tell themselves while laughing in tears