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Last week, I tried to register for a service and was really surprised by a password limit of 16 characters. Why on earth yould you impose such strict limits? Never heard of correct horse battery staple?

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[–] BlueKey@fedia.io 2 points 3 months ago

And (at least at the time of my account creation) don't even tell you about it. I found out by the errormessage in the networklog of the REST requests why my signup failed repeately.