myrmepropagandistJul 10, 2025

20 years of online shopping and a whole industry excited to collect data and autofill and address checking functions STILL mess up apartments.

The system is set up to work well with houses, but there is no consensus on if "apartment/suite" should be a separate field or not... and it's also still often rendered wrong, and makes bad suggestions such as "correcting"

123ABC to 123Abc

Granted when I worked in database design this was my "thing" so I'm hypercritical ... but still.

Show threadmyrmepropagandistJul 10, 2025

I get personally offended because I suspect that it's some kind of American suburban-centric mentality that makes apartments an afterthought.

The correct answer is that "apartment suite" should be a separate field NOT tacked on to the street address, but in most renderings it should be on the same line with a comma.

And you need to deftly separate this information if the user tries to enter it in the address line.

ANYWAY.

Show threadapophisJul 10, 2025
@futurebird
> American suburban-centric mentality

this finally explains why it's gotten so much worse with the past decade of enshittification, like you'd think it'd just be slower and more convoluted and creepy and stalkery but no we're seeing *major active regressions* with each overhaul
Show threadapophis
@futurebird (ceterum censeo, see also: support for names that aren't Firstname Middlename Lastname)
Jul 10, 2025 at 4:10pmWeb