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Thanks for signing up and thanks for the feedback! I agree that that captcha sucks, but it's the default so I left it for now. I'll add all this to my todo list!
I have a different problem in that the captcha will not get validated for me! I tried registering, but it seems that no matter how many times I try the captcha code shwos invalid. I'm not a bot, I swear! :)
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I've sent feedback to a couple dozen sites over this. Most were government website (internal military sites are the worst) but when various financial institutions started updating their policies they forcing this silliness. When they don't allow spaces in passwords either, I worry.
Keep in mind, there are situations where the website you're using is interfacing to backend systems that have constraints that can't easily be changed (colloquially known as "legacy systems"). Feedback is good, but change takes time.
I've inherited several ancient code bases where everyone knew silly password rules were a legacy requirement. And ultimately after a lot of digging, every time they were a "legacy limitation" because the original project manager called for it, and could easily be removed by commenting out one check. Which was never allowed to happen, because it was a "constraint that couldn't be changed".
I do accept there are databases with eight character fields for maximums, but beyond that, I'm interested in any genuine experience.
This site was borne of the discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17068138 (Specifically this part of the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17071224 ) I spun up an instance of phpBB (trying to keep costs down) and customized a ThemeForest theme to make it not ugly. I'll post a thread today that lists all of my notes from the setup process of the site for anyone interested. I'm a huge fan of…
Nice man, reminds me of a forum we used to visit ;-)
> must contain letters in mixed case, must contain numbers and must contain symbols Please don't do this. Have a minimum length, but don't force me to miss it up. My password manager shouldn't have to try multiple times to generate matching passphrase.
I'll adjust! EDIT: Changed this to just have a minimum length restriction. Thanks for the feedback!
I think that we need a forum with the good hierarchical overview of the good, old usenet clients (but with updated UI, of course).
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I've sent feedback to a couple dozen sites over this. Most were government website (internal military sites are the worst) but when various financial institutions started updating their policies they forcing this silliness. When they don't allow spaces in passwords either, I worry.
TreasuryDirect is pretty bad about this -- the passwords are not case-sensitive, and they need to be entered using an on-screen keyboard.
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I couldn’t imagine releasing a forum for the hn community that wasn’t also a neat software project. Using phpbb seems like the antithesis of something this community would appreciate, other than perhaps for the practicality of choosing something common.
That was kinda the point of this whole thing though. This wasn't a software project for me, this was a community project. I have no interest in developing a forum, but I do have interest in participating in one. From what I can tell so far, what we setup seems to be working fine. If we hit a wall, I'll search out the next most practical option.