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"Don't ever log people out" is pretty much the credo for a lot of big things I've seen. A surprising number of folks will never manage to get logged back in.

• squiggleblaz 8y ago
  But that doesn't justify firing the programmer who wrote "%G" insetad of "%Y". If they chose to create a stupidly complex login process that involves memorising some string you're never supposed to use (because you should never be logged out), that's a design bug. What kind of idiot designs a system and says "the way to access the system is by using a memorised string" and "you should never log any users out". It's frustrating and it makes no sense. Passwords. They're even stupider than the idiot who works for every single news company, who thought they should resize videos shot on a phone so they can be displayed on a widescreen tv, and then using that on your news app that people only ever use on a phone. It's shocking how few companies will let you log in by sending a token to your phone or your email. It's how I bloody log in anyway, I just have to put up with your stupid password reset process and then be able to three times type some gibberish string that I'm going to forget. As for those who log people out - well, my email is logged in on my phone anyway. If I've lost my phone no-one cares about your dingy little app. And even if they did, they have access to it by virtue of having my email account. Bleh.