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Nope. Email validation is easy: contains an "@", and gets delivered somewhere. Everything else is too clever by half. Names lack this interactive verification..
by Piskvorrr 7y ago
Nope. Email validation is easy: contains an "@", and gets delivered somewhere. Everything else is too clever by half. Names lack this interactive verification...and oh my goodness, the tussenvoegsel thing you mention: the horror...the horror!!! (Oh, you wanted to sort the names? That's a Lovecraftian nightmare of its own.)
- sethhochberg 7y agoDuring registration flows, I'm also a fan of validating that the domain has MX records published - DNS queries are a pretty cheap option for detecting whether its at least plausible that your validation email will arrive later. At scale, its an easy option for helping users detect typos in their email domain (or for helping guide less technical users, like those who might provide address@gmail or similar instead of address@gmail.com)
- 9nGQluzmnq3M 7y agoIf you try to make @ mandatory, you'll soon get an angry mail from hn!verizon!randomisp!somehipster complaining how you're marginalizing people who still use bang paths. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP
- Piskvorrr 7y agoSorry about that, then. I also have no gopher support and redirect all HTTP to that newfangled HTTPS - so such person would not even get to such a form in the first place ;)