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Nikita

There are still websites that don't believe that my email address is real. Let's find a way to fix this.

kytta.dev/blog/yes-my-email-ex

This is post 002 of #100DaysToOffload

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tux0r :openbsd:

@kytta Possible solution: make all website admins use my library to validate addresses. ;-) github.com/dertuxmalwieder/lib

Ru (Tech) :blobcatsadlife:

@kytta God, ugh. The number of times my .one throwaway has been rejected because it's...invalid. I had to sign up for a .com with a much longer name to have a "backup" email that will safely work 100% of the places I try to use it. -_-

Bill's in the shop for repairs

@kytta
At least some of this is because of the absolutely horrible decision to use email address as a primary or unique key for accounts. The data modeler in my soul dies a little each time I see it. ☠️

Som

@kytta oh my, I have so much of this trouble with my som.observer domain that after a year possessing it I start thinking to buy another one with a less cumbersome TLD just to have a backup email for such stupid checks...

René Fouquet

@kytta I have a .me domain and I feel your pain.

Nikita

@rene Damn, and it's not even one of those shiny new gTLDs!

René Fouquet

@kytta It’s almost like they’ve found this old email validation regex from 1995 and thought “eh, good enough”.

Roni Laukkarinen

@kytta It's even funnier that my email roni@dude.fi causes "Did you mean roni@dude.fr". No, I'm Finnish, not French. Finland is a real country, no matter what they say.

Andrew Ross

@kytta @bazbt3 This reminds me of a friend who couldn't get a package delivered to his address, because he lived on Broadway. The software couldn't believe that it was just “Broadway” and not “Broadway St" or "Broadway Ave”.

smorks

@kytta i have a .tech domain and run into this more often than i'd like too. ugh.

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