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[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

There's a special category reserved for the devs that design their apps to invalidate passwords, but not give a message saying the password is invalidated and needs to be changed.

In my experiences that is usually the cause. Them invalidating the password sending an email (or sometimes not). cue me trying the old password, failing, changing the password, and getting that message. /tableflip

[–] limelight79@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

The time and attendance software at my old job would do that. It took me a while to figure out that it wasn't me forgetting the password, the password had just expired. Extremely frustrating.

[–] sartalon@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Came here to say this.

Pretty sure most of the time the password is expired or invalidated, as you said, but whoever vibe coded the system was too lazy, too dumb, or too terrified of being blamed for the frustration of changing a password, that they think it is better to put ALL the frustration on the user.

Whatever the reason, I fucking hate them.

[–] Draegur@lemmy.zip 1 points 18 hours ago

"I'll just gaslight them into thinking they couldn't remember it"

Fucking assholes.