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Re:Become unbannable from your email by 1oooqooq on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @09:22PM (#45511010)
ah! the fathers of slop vibe code: copy paste coders.

the "validate email input regex" that mistakenly rejects plus sign have been copy pasted for so long it might live on forever.

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Re:Become unbannable from your email by SchemaLoad on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @12:34AM (#45512113)
Could be by design. They want you using your main gmail address and not signing up multiple times.
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Re:Become unbannable from your email by 1oooqooq on Thursday October 09, 2025 @09:08AM (#45527186)
you'd think if that was the only thing broken on that copy-pasted-regex.
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