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Not only does the credit bureau max out their password length, you have a small list of available non-alphanumeric characters you can use, and no spaces. Also you cannot used a plused email address, and it had an issue with my self hosted email alias, forcing me to use my gmail address.

Both Experian and transunion had no password length limitations, nor did they require my username be my email address.

Update: I have been unable to log into my account for the last 3 days now. Every time I try I get a page saying to call customer service. After a total of 2 hours on hold I finally found the issue, you cannot connect to Equifax using a VPN. In addition there is no option for 2FA (not even email or sms) and they will hang up on you if you push the issue of their security being lax. Their reasoning for lax security and no vpn usage is "well all of our other customers are okay with this".

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[–] [email protected] 158 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Yeah well, if you’re so smart let’s see you write a website in COBOL.

[–] [email protected] 88 points 2 months ago (1 children)

no spaces in a string is a dead giveaway that theres Cobol in there somewhere meow

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 months ago (2 children)

their name is kittykittycatboys what else do you expect :3 meow

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago (3 children)

It shows up on my screen as merely "max", nothing else.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

If you open the profile it seems to have two names. I have the feeling that only one of them is valid with the instance postfix, despite it being shown with both

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Username and display name can be set independently, you should have a "Display name" field in settings. Their non-unique display name is "max" and their unique username is "@[email protected]". If you check their profile you should see both.

If you don't set a display name it will be the same as your username, if you set display name to the same as username (like I have) it'll show your username without the instance even to people on other instances.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Oh, I see. Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Where would max even come from? That's not in their username o.O

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

That’s what I see too!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Max is the name of the cat, duh.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Meow do you like to drink milk from a saucer?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You joke, but...

(No, I will never forgive the college I went to for undergrad for forcing us to take two semesters of COBOL. Why do you ask?)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I actually clicked on all the web-related Awesome Cobol links yesterday. Each one is either a broken link or golang code.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

"We serve ~~food~~ sanity here, sir"