[probst]

In case you want to sign-up and cannot get the client side validation to accept your password: they apply email validation to the passwords. You'll have to make up a password that's also a valid email address. In other words, something like: [e-mail]

[metahost]

Why are they doing that?

[dvh]

Copy paste programming

[cameronbrown]

Wow. Did they copy the same test for both fields twice too? Or more likely: do they have tests at all.

[cpfohl]

Lots of places don't have tests at all. This is not uncommon. (Or even all that problematic if other processes and capabilities are in place).

[essayist]

I worked on a site supporting voter calls in 2004. There was no sanity checking of the usernames people proposed, so we had gems like leading spaces and multiple embedded spaces in the usernames. I figured some people signed up and then were never able to login.

[cameronbrown]

I mean, not being able to sign up is fairly problematic.

[pixelbath]

True, but "server overwhelmed" is not usually one of the first tests written.

[cameronbrown]

I'm referring to the inability to choose a password without some esoteric email-like rule-set.