The other day I couldn’t buy an article from an academic publisher because my surname has a hyphen.
Today I can’t get into Dropbox because it has decided my email address—which I have had an account under for nearly a decade—is invalid.
I swear we have gotten worse at this stuff lately…? #UIFails
@TheMartianLife Names, email addresses, physical addresses, telephone numbers... People are constantly getting rules for these wrong by applying their limited experience as though it were universal. Drives me NUTS.
You're not alone: https://hachyderm.io/@[email protected]ocial/113185097559067180
Also: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/
Dear {everyone who writes software that has logins or full-name usernames} Please hire some people with diverse names. Stupid name rules like no spaces, no special characters, no lower-case starts to words in a name – let alone presence of so-called "conventional" name elements (surname, forename, middle names, etc.) need to be dumped in a ditch forever. #UX
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