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Password trouble
5 points by gaah 6139 days ago | 5 comments
Now I feel stupid. This is a throwaway account because I forgot my password on my real one. I'm pretty sure I put my email address on it. What bugs me is that the "reset password" button is only available if you are already logged in. I would like something like those "Forgot your password?" buttons which send a "Go to this URL to change your password" message to the email stored on your account.

Well, as I cannot find any such button, I ask: does anyone know how I can get my password back? Also, PG, could you please put up some sort of password recovery feature?



5 points by Jesin 6135 days ago | link

Whoa. I was browsing the forums on the same computer I had posted this topic from, and I looked up in the top right corner, and I noticed I had randomly gotten my account back. I guess it was buried somewhere in my browser's cookies and the recent cleanup I did uncovered it. I now shall change my password to something I will remember. I got lucky. Yay!

The bad news is that I needed to get lucky. I still say a password recovery thing would be helpful.

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2 points by lojic 6139 days ago | link

Also, if you have the same userid on Hacker News, you could post a note in your profile that proves you've authenticated there which might help with the trust issues.

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1 point by treef 6139 days ago | link

Yeah the sites are messed up i have a HN account and a account on this form but it looks like after PG copied some thing wrong and now i log in to randomly either treeform or treef.

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1 point by lojic 6139 days ago | link

Maybe you should let pg know your real user name, so he can help, eh?

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2 points by gaah 6139 days ago | link

Sorry, yes. My regular account name is Jesin, but the best proof I can offer is that while I don't have the password the account will remain inactive (unless of course someone else manages to get the password). I use that name for almost all of my online accounts, but I don't happen to have an account at Hacker News yet.

As I said, I think I put my email address on my profile for that account, so if I could access a verification-email-based password recovery system I'd be fine, but for some reason you need to be logged in to do that.

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