I'm locked out of my 6 year old Chipotle account because they now say my email address is invalid when I login. Here is me asking for their help:

sacbuntchris@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world – 1562 points –

I also reached out to them on Twitter but they directed me to this form. I followed up with them on Twitter with what happened in this screenshot but they are now ignoring me.

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It's easier to Google "email regex [language]" and copy the first result from stack overflow.

Definitely a timesaver. Much faster to get incorrect email validation that way then to try building it yourself.

Skip the building step and go straight to pulling your hair out over why itโ€™s not working! Efficiency!

That probably lead to this exchange.

Stack Overflow is useful, but...it needs more than a little parsing for useful answers.

I know (hope) you're being facetious, because the objectively best way to do email validation is to send a fuckin email to the provided address.

To be valid, the email just has to match [anything@anything]. ,๐Ÿ™ƒ@localhost can be perfect legal if localhost supports utf8 in usernames.