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Glad to hear I'm not the only one that lost their S.O. account because they decided to try the amazing sounding OpenID.
by mathgenius 5y ago
Glad to hear I'm not the only one that lost their S.O. account because they decided to try the amazing sounding OpenID.
- bambax 5y agoMe too!
- raydev 5y agoIt’s been several years now but they had a long (1 year?) window where you could migrate to a supported login method.
- linsomniac 5y agoOh, I know it's entirely my fault for letting it be inactive and all, I'm not blaming them. It IS unfortunate that there's both a fairly high barrier to entry AND apparently no real way to recover older accounts. It's hard to justify the time investment to improving an existing answer on stackoverflow, when I've already posted it to Youtube and that's 95% of where I get my DIY education. Backstory: SO has a post about this stove that has several people showing bad solders of one joint on a relay in the bowels of the stove (really, it took me and my son almost 2 hours to disassemble it to get to it). My video details disassembly, location, repair, and a quick reassembly. ~8 minutes of video. Sadly, people report most repair services just recommend you replace the whole stove, because replacement boards are ~$700, and you can't tell which of 3 boards until you've spent 2 hours on disassembly/reassembly. Most repair services aren't willing to re-solder a joint. Here's the video I made, FYI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbxugIpIiS8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbxugIpIiS8
- skipants 5y agoDidn't they have some way to transfer your account over from OpenID? Pretty sure I used it at the start as well, but now my account is a normal SO account.