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"We'll build our own validation instead of using one of the existing standards that make perfect sense." is not just "a single bug". It's a flaw in architecture.

A PR of "Change external domain validation to use .well-known (or DNS01, etc)" is not a "bugfix"

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okay so clearly you don't know what you're talking about because they do use existing standards/DNS as the primary way to validate domain ownership. It's free to not say anything and read the comments first before going off about something!

>okay so clearly you don't know what you're talking about because they do use existing standards/DNS as the primary way to validate domain ownership.

I'm not going to speak for the commenter you're replying to, but I don't think anyone here is talking about the standards-compliant, DNS-based domain verification system. I think we're all talking about the non-standards-compliant, /xrpc/-path verification.

With any kind of authentication when you have an insecure method it does not mather whether you also have a more secure method - your authentication is only as good as the weakest alternative.

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