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[beermat]

Another day, another round of password updating and profile editing
(thanks LastPiss, anyone got a recommendation for a good password manager? 1password? )

YAFUS
(Yet Another Fucking Useless Site)

this lot do the whole "tell you what the rules for a password are AFTER you've entered the new password"
(hey, at lest they told me eventually , some sites take an "invalid" password and then don't let it be used to re-login in with, either for charlen or character composition. Or jsut don't tell you what their "rules" are and leave you guessing how to generate a password. So not surprising folk'll just user 1234 or similar. idiots. (the website "coders" that is, not the poor dumb schmucks having to use their shitty UI/UX))

but on on clicking "SAVE" to exit their profile edit page , it gives me
"OOPS... SOMETHING IS NOT RIGHT Please enter a properly formatted E-MAIL ADDRESS."
No, go fuck yourselves , you incompetent bunch of cretinous coders. it is a valid email address as per RFC822. fuck off.

many places dislike a "+" in email address. this lot let me set the account up n months ago though using it.

ah well, onwards to the next YAFUS !

Comments

[ingaborg]

Gah! Yes, I have long since abandoned any silly shenanigans trying to check email address format for exactly that reason; our bank's website rejects hyphens! The one thing I did put into a signup form is a check that the email address contains an @ symbol and username doesn't, because people weren't reading the captions carefully and were entering their email address in the username field, which then meant it was public! And on Google forms, Google have put in a stupid display of your email address (who you are logged in as) which makes people assume the email address is automatically filled in because WHY WOULD IT BE DISPLAYED ON THE FORM OTHERWISE and then put their name and no email address so I can't actually contact them. So you have to manually reject the 'email' field if there is no '@' so that they realise yes, they need to put their email address here not 'bob'.

[beermat]

It's seemingly going to take a long time for corporates / everyone to realise the value of experienced UI & UX designers and pay for quality work , not just getting one man and his dog, bob, write these things for a fiver.

here, YAFUSs due to lastPiss giving everything away continue , with 82 "TODO"s in the notes text file as problematic ones needing more time to fight UI / UX crap so far.

Ah well, passes the time, eh!
:)

[ingaborg]

In this case, it's not the UX designers who are at fault. They are not the ones who define what should be considered a valid email address - and engineers can get a bit snitty if UX folks start poking their noses into what are considered technical matters. It's the programmers who aren't thinking it through. I say this as a UI designer-turned-programmer; really everybody needs to do both. The technical details of implementation affect UX profoundly - as for example when somebody proudly demo'd their user search feature which only queried the database after 3 characters had been typed in.

Fortunately, I pointed out the existence of all the "Ng"s in the world before it went to production.