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 18 points 1 day 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 17 points 1 day 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 5 points 1 day 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 6 points 20 hours 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.