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What are the worst sins in a website aimed at selling things to developers?

Survey period: 19 Jul 2021 to 26 Jul 2021

I'm not saying we're a pedantic, fussy unforgiving bunch. Just be careful when trying to be clever...

Option	Votes	%
Using technical terms and getting them wrong	359	56.54
Trying to be developer hip	214	33.70
Obvious coding errors in the page (page is broken, errors in the console etc)	355	55.91
Obvious security holes, especially on purchase pages	316	49.76
Beginner errors in form submission workflows (no client-side validation, getting confused by trailing spaces etc)	266	41.89
Trying to impress the audience with their "cleverness"	223	35.12
Insisting that customers communicate through social media (eg Facebook Messenger, Twitter etc)	418	65.83
Trying to block certain actions, but leaving them wide open to anyone who uses the browser Developer Tools	165	25.98
Other	50	7.87
Responses	635
Respondents were allowed to choose more than one answer; totals may not add up to 100%

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Re: Needs another option Erik Burd20-Jul-21 3:45 Erik Burd 20-Jul-21 3:45  Password boxes in particular are the biggest gripe that I have. Ugh... "Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." -- Marcus Brigstocke, British Comedian Re: Needs another option Mark H220-Jul-21 11:11 Mark H2 20-Jul-21 11:11  Funnily enough I ticked all of the boxes thinkng why isn't there an "all of the above" option... Totaly agree on the password bull*%$#. Restricting password length is my bugbear. If your neighbours don't listen to The Ramones, turn it up real loud so they can. “We didn't have a positive song until we wrote 'Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue!'” ― Dee Dee Ramone "The Democrats want my guns and the Republicans want my porno mags and I ain't giving up either" - Joey Ramone Re: Needs another option V.22-Jul-21 1:08 V. 22-Jul-21 1:08  I have a password system that includes all this stuff, but then I encountered a sites that: do not take that specific special character you used in your password password is still too short (eg needs to be longer than 16 or 20 characters) password cannot be longer than 6 characters. I repeat: "Password can not be longer than 6 characters" This last one was even worse since it ACCEPTED my initial proposal, and it just refused logging me in ... several readme's and helpdesk mails later, that was the response... V.

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