Products · Pattern or everyday thing
Plus-addressed email
Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2012–2024), in 6 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Sites reject plus-sign addresses, so users must remember which address each site gotUnreviewed
20122026- Sites strip the plus part, so signed-up address fails to log in2022-06-21
- Some sites reject plus-sign addresses, and users must remember which address they used per site2013-02-28
- Forgets which plus-address variant was used, and login rejects addresses the purchase form accepted2012-11-14
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 6 complaints
- Websites reject or silently alter plus-addressed emails, causing lost messages2024-08-15
- Sites mishandle plus signs in emails, so logins fail and verification emails never arrive2024-01-24
- Sites strip the plus part, so signed-up address fails to log in2022-06-21
- Forgetting to send from the + alias gets mail delayed for days with an unhelpful rejection2020-07-15
- Some sites reject plus-sign addresses, and users must remember which address they used per site2013-02-28
- Forgets which plus-address variant was used, and login rejects addresses the purchase form accepted2012-11-14