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User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

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Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Really the entire idea of client/server-side email "validation" kind of seems like an ancient, cockroach-like anti-pattern that is impossible to stamp out. Like, what is the problem they're even solving? One validates email addresses by sending an email with a token the user then acts on. There are useful things to do with emails, like checking against already registered ones (including any blacklists), but I can't t…

> what is the problem they're even solving? The problem they're solving is that a lot of people just enter their email wrong and then wonder why they didn't get the signup email. > Like if someone tries to register an already registered email, send an email about it don't leak that it's registered. This is something that's cargo-culted far too often. Maybe for some services it's worth keeping secret which emails are…

The problem they're solving is that a lot of people just enter their email wrong and then wonder why they didn't get the signup email.

“This doesn’t look like a correct email address that our clients usually use. Please re-check it again and proceed if you’re sure.”

for most it isn't

It depends more on an email address, than on a service type, because it’s a part of a personal information that a person owns.

Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

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Well...I did it...somehow...I did... 00:06:57 That seems too fast...apparently i've experienced these things far too much. It actually was filling me with rage. I came close to saying fuck it...I really did... Well done to the creators...you managed to, with 100% accuracy, capture every single thing that's horrible about signing up to websites. That bow thing though...gotta admit, was worth it just for the chuckle I…

00:33:39—Jury is out on whether that’s a good or bad thing...

That deserves a medal just for the incredible amount of inhuman patience that must have taken.

That's just an insane level of perseverance.

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My favorite part was the giant array of checked checkboxes and the instructions to only check three. I started mindlessly unchecking all of them and then accidentally hit the randomly placed "select all" checkbox once I got near the end. Legitimately made me laugh out loud at how absurd it was.

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I rage-quitted on the third captcha

I ended up getting through by selecting them all.

I gave up after the 6th captcha or so. If the answer is to check them all then that's a bit dishonest, because some pictures technically don't apply. For example, glass windows are not "glasses".
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