The Truth Sets You Free

Editor’s Note: I’m going to be going through some old drafts and either get them published or delete them. This beauty is from a few years back when I was trying to reap at least some benefit from visiting my least favorite city, Las Vegas. Thank goodness I can now get Marriott Bonvoy points at any MGM hotel instead.

This is an impressively bad error message I ran into while trying to create an account on the MGM Resorts website. The input screen even had instructions on password format, so the framework was there to do the right thing, but they didn’t mention length, nor did they validate it in the UI.

Of course I had to dig into Developer Tools to see what was going on. A useful error message was right there. C’mon MGM, do better.

Also, a 20 character limit for passwords? That’s dumb.