For one fun one, on mobile web (android/chrome) you can't insert a space in the middle of a "word" you created by deleting the space between two words. The deletion is immediately reverted by some JS abomination.
It's one thing to call that an unimportant bug, but it calls into question a whole chain of decisions leading to that moment, and it's far from an isolated incident. As always there's a relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/463/
Total focus on the main product, which is the API.
Car company makes innovative new car engine for their vehicle. A user wants to get a replacement key made for the vehicle, but company doesn't have the process in place to make replacement keys:
Are you fascinated by this hypothetical companies level of discipline? Or would you consider it negligent and inept?
Let's keep in mind that OpenAI is a small company (in people terms), and they are fighting toe to toe with Google.
Heck, if they mess up a quarter they are probably dead.
edit: If you don't understand why this is actually important, realize that they're burning billions. They don't focus their devs on things that generate revenue, or the light will go out.
(for those who don't get the reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzcJlKg2Rc0&t=1886s (31:26 - 32:13)).
You can use 3rd party apps/tools to get around this, FWIW.
I use OpenHue on Linux. On iOS I've not had much luck finding a quality app, however a long time ago I did find a good one for Android...(I just don't remember the name, sorry.)
The account login crap is ridiculous, considering you don't even need internet to use their stuff. The lack of needing a login was the whole reason I bought into the ecosystem to begin with.
The advantage of their hosted services is that they can get through NATs without any additional hardware or software.
It requires a Hue bridge, but all the official Hue apps need that too (unless you're using the new Bluetooth support, which very few people are). You shouldn't need any other hardware though.
> The advantage of their hosted services is that they can get through NATs without any additional hardware or software.
Locally, it doesn't really matter, since everything just goes over the local network. You're definitely correct for remote access though, but I hardly ever need to control my lights remotely.
They can get away with not implementing even basic stuff, becauase their core feature is all 99% of the users even care about.
Then again, they have LLMs that can just deflect all "change email" related questions to an FAQ article containing the "wontfix" information...
Perhaps there is some weirdness if you’ve signed up with GitHub. Feel free to email me and we can take a look: amjad@repl.it
But I’ll double check tomorrow and reach out if I find anything worth sharing.
[1] https://support.claude.com/en/articles/8452276-how-do-i-chan...
Update: I just checked, out of curiosity – seems to be gone now?
I created an google account, use it on my android smartphone and buy some app, many years ago.
It's 2026 and Google still doesn't allow email change.
>Paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not apply to the extent that processing is necessary:
>for exercising the right of freedom of expression and information;
dang will randomize your username on request though, which is compliant. Everything else on your profile you can delete yourself.
Since 2003!
Some tangently related anecdata: VRChat has a pretty strict email-changing policy. You need to confirm you own both the VR account and the original email account. Reasonable, but can be tricky if you don't have access to the original email anymore. I was able to navigate it but yeah, it's not always simple.
Because client doesn’t know it, inserts can be slow in cross-db environment.
Guid is always better (can be client generated), and modern guid versions can be ordered chronologically
I guess development teams are all focused on feature delivery and research.
Saying from experience getting flagged previously while reporting changes in OpenAI’s policy regarding medical and law advice
- if they verified their email, are they allowed to change it?
- if so, can they use the new email for anything as long as it’s not verified, or does it stay in pending state? for how long?
- if it’s in a pending state, can someone signup with a "pending state" email?
- does the email change need to be validated by sending a validation email to the previous email addresses?
- once changed, can an email address be reused for another account? That’s a dangerous one but if you don’t support it you end up shamed on HN with "OpenAI doesn’t allow me to create an account with an email address that used to be associated with an account on their platform but isn’t anymore"
I’m probably missing 10 more bullet points.
I bet most comments in this thread didn’t think beyond "UPDATE accounts SET email = $1"
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