Wii U Netflix App Doesn't Allow '@' Entry into Password Field
Laughably, the Wii U Netflix App doesn't allow for @ for password entry.
It looks like the usability testing departments at Netflix and Nintendo might be in trouble.
The Wii U Netflix app's launch, like the console's launch itself, didn't exactly go smoothly. The Wii U Netflix app somehow didn't ship with the '@' function for password entry.
A Reddit user reported the issue to Netflix support. The only solution thus so far is for users with the @ symbol in their password to change their password via the Netflix website to something else that's actually available on the app keyboard.
Neither Nintendo nor Netflix have released a statement as to why or how this could've happened. Though the issue isn't so serious that it requires an urgent fix, it's definitely quite an inconvenience for Netflix users.
https://twitter.com/netflixhelps/status/271067706130841600
There's no reason to allow the @ sign in a password, 99% of the time it's used as part of an email or replacement for @.
Plus I've tried the Amazon Video app for the Wii U, definitely better than the Netflix app
https://twitter.com/netflixhelps/status/271067706130841600
(But then again, it's doing a lot better than US Postal Service.)
well, it's not their problem.
1 d0nt kn0w @b0ut y0u but 1 @add "@" in p@ssw0rd @ll th3 t1m3 L1k3 th1s.
the usps is doing just fine and turning a profit
...an artifical scheme cooked up by legislators who want to privatize the usps is making it APPEAR to be unprofitable. If you remove the corrupt scheme from the equation the USPS has ZERO DEBT and Is PROFITABLE.
how do you not know this?
In other words your password is one of the first ones to be guessed by any decent hacker. Nice.
OTOH, my passwords sometimes have the @ symbol in them if it shows up on the number generator.
If that's the case maybe you should retire.
You go back in time and tell the engineers of Mark IV and Medium Mark A Whippet landships that they should retire. Those tanks could do what the infantry couldn't, advance over one mile within six months without getting shot up, and scaring off enemy infantry.
Of course artillery was always an issue though. Though there was one exception for a Whippet during the Battle of Amiens, it advanced so far into the rear area that it busted up the artillery guns, which is a very serious loss in WWI.
it'd be much smarter to look for [text]@[text].[valid extension] and prevent something that looks very much like a password, instead of just excluding a commonly used special character.