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But you forgot the rule where it couldn't be more than 12 characters long, so you didn't try the correct variation until the validation error for the password reset told you what the rules are.
THIS is the one that makes me the angriest.
I'm happy to comply with your complexity requirements, but don't tell me about each one only when I've failed to meet it. That's really past the bar of shitty design into the realm of asshole design.
I'm not a security expert, so I'm sure someone can correct me, but it is my understanding that all the nonsense of adding numbers and special characters does nothing to increase security. Longer passwords increase security, even if they are all lowercase letters.
So, "PaS$w3rD@" is a much less secure password than "sallyandbillywenttothestoreforsoda"
You are exactly right and here is a comic that explains it. But nearly 0 websites have caught on to this.
https://xkcd.com/936/?correct=horse&battery=staple
I had an account with a bank that got bought. Always used the app, which worked fine, but I needed some document I could only get from the website. Go to log in and it gives me all sorts of weird errors. Support made me reset my password, all that stuff. I figured it out. Old bank would let you log in with email or username. New bank only let you log in with username, except it had dropped old bank's username and put the email in the username field in their database. The website scrubbed emails from that field, and so it submitted a null username. The app didn't l, so it let me log in. Weirdest issue I've ever had with a service and actually figured it out.
Using android banking app, phone broke, new phone with same app flagged and froze my whole account. I had no access to my money and had to physically go to the bank to get it all unlocked, they couldn't do it over the phone. Only had $20 in my wallet and thankfully my cab driver took me there even though the fare was more. Not a fun day.
Whew yeah that's a shitty one too. Good job working it out!