“Enterprise-level developers” working on mission critical banking software don’t make people have to open up developer tools to see the regular expression error on a registration form challenge 2026.
It’s not rocket science, folks.
*smdh*
#capitalism #mainstream #mediocrity
GezThePez
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in reply to Aral Balkan • • •If you’re trying to register for a Bank of Ireland account and the form fails silently, don’t worry, it’s simple to find out what happened and fix it.
1. Open up developer tools on your browser
2. Copy the failed regular expression from the console
3. Put it, and your generated password into Regexr (regexr.com)
And voila, as you can see the problem with mine* was that it hit the 16 character limit which was, to keep things exciting, not mentioned on the page.
Simples.
What muppets!
* Don’t worry, it’s a different one now.
#capitalism #mainstream #mediocrity #BankOfIreland #banks #design #web #dev #ireland
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RegExrAral Balkan
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Me: I need to reluctantly do some adulting.
Also me: Ends up debugging some bank’s stupid web site.
🤷♂️
Malak1999
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •tom jennings
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Mine once had a 21 character limit on the web, but a 20 character limit mobile web, and the error was "wrong password".
Does anyone test anything?
GezThePez
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Malcontent Creator
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Willow
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Why do banks consistently have worse security than your average website
Aral Balkan
in reply to Willow • • •iwein
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Kim Spence-Jones 🇬🇧😷
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Dumb rules for passwords really wind me up. Why should I *have* to include a number, for example? That just reduces the search space for any attacker. And then there are sites that prevent the use of certain special characters, again for no good reason (apart from the bad design of their back end, I suppose).
Secret validation fails just compound the problem.
Yrjänä Rankka 🌻
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in reply to Yrjänä Rankka 🌻 • • •JKB
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in reply to JKB • • •CynAq🤘
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