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Re: Let's compile a list of ways to annoy the user.

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Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> wrote:
> Just extending this old thread with a new user annoyance item:
> 
> When showing a user their credit card details, so that the user can
> update an expiry date, replace some of the card digits with asterisks
> as a security measure, and then complain about them when the user
> tries to submit the change.

Really?  Wow....  Talk about both developers and testing falling down
there.

One of my annoyances surrounding credit cards is the number of website
developers who don't comprehend that computers are *very* good at
removing characters that match a pattern.

So, when the CC processor takes credit card numbers in the form
123456781234 they then extend this requirement all the way to the end
user form.  I get esp.  annoyed by the ones that include "Enter CC
number ..  no spaces" because when that is there in the label it is
very clear they intentionally and purposefully passed along the
back-end API requirements onto the front.

 

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Re: Let's compile a list of ways to annoy the user. Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2017-12-02 11:23 +1100
  Re: Let's compile a list of ways to annoy the user. Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2017-12-02 01:37 +0000
    Re: Let's compile a list of ways to annoy the user. Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2017-12-02 13:12 +1100
    Re: Let's compile a list of ways to annoy the user. Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2017-12-02 09:39 +0000
      Re: Let's compile a list of ways to annoy the user. Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2017-12-02 18:02 +0000
        Re: Let's compile a list of ways to annoy the user. The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2017-12-02 12:44 -0800
          Re: Let's compile a list of ways to annoy the user. Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2017-12-03 09:31 +0000
        Re: Let's compile a list of ways to annoy the user. Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2017-12-03 09:43 +0000
  Re: Let's compile a list of ways to annoy the user. Eric Pozharski <whynot@pozharski.name> - 2017-12-02 15:31 +0200
  Re: Let's compile a list of ways to annoy the user. Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2017-12-14 12:50 +1100
    Re: Let's compile a list of ways to annoy the user. Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2017-12-14 02:06 +0000
      Re: Let's compile a list of ways to annoy the user. Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2017-12-21 13:52 +1100

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