How do I get past this? > Your password is not unsafe
use A1AAAAAAAAAA and be A1AAAAAAAAAA@gmail.com
Thanks, that worked.
User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment
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Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment
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My email address has a dash in the domain and it's remarkable how many sites (and big ones, too!) reject it as an invalid domain. Discover.com, for example, rejected it when I did a card application, but disabling JavaScript let it go through on the server-side validation. Bloody weird.
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…
Steam does emails correctly when it comes to login/registration; your email address is just a contact method for your account, and you can have multiple accounts with the same email address.
IMO, the only client-side validation that would be done on email addresses is to ensure it doesn't have a space in it and it has an @ in it, and maybe make sure someone isn't doing funny things without a hostname (disallow IP-based hosts).