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.

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There's an aspect of my surname which is somewhat unusual (at least in my country). As a result I occasionally get form validation errors when entering it. Sometimes those errors are extremely inscrutable. Sometimes a form validates but something elsewhere makes unvalidated assumptions about names which then breaks in completely unpredictable names...

[–] TurtleTourParty@midwest.social 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Does it fall into one of the falsehoods programmers believe about names? https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Actually no. In fact, I think most people who thought for a minute would realise names like mine exist, it's just that sometimes people working systems don't think for a minute ;)

[–] purplemonkeymad@programming.dev 8 points 2 weeks ago

The number of scripts I've seen that would break with an O'Neill or O'Brien is too high. Worse is some people don't get it when pointed out.