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Do I need to create a new account or can I use my old account? It doesn't seem to remember my old username.

by aymeric 15y ago

gizzlon 15y ago
Maybe their not lost after all, spotted an update on their new blog: http://deliciousengineering.blogspot.com/2011/09/firefox-extension-fixed-after-long.html http://deliciousengineering.blogspot.com/2011/09/firefox-ext... (at the end..)
gizzlon 15y ago
If you didn't pay attention and authorize them to move your data, I guess it's lost? :( But seriously, I got like 5 of those.. how did you miss it?
- jasonkester 15y ago
  In that same span of time, how many thousands of emails from other services you signed up for but don't particularly care about at the moment did you receive? That's how you can miss something like that. For some reason, every business in the world thinks it's important enough that I am going to be constantly monitoring it to make sure I'm still signed up, active, don't want all my stuff deleted, etc. But for the most part real people can go years at a time not caring about services like this, yet still have a reasonable expectation that their stuff will still be there when they go back. As luck may have it, this interaction spurred me to check my Hotmail account again, because I used it as my backup email address for a few services several years ago and they have a nasty habit of deleting accounts for inactivity. Sure enough, all my email is gone. Evidently because it's been a few months since I logged in. Completely inexcusable, but at least I caught it before they deleted the account entirely. Amazing that companies think this is acceptable behavior.
  - gizzlon 15y ago
    yeah, I see your point.. I usually quit services that send too many emails. Maybe I noticed the delicious email because they don't normally spam me.
- jcfiala 15y ago
  I missed it - I don't even know which email account it went to. I didn't authorize them to move anything, but they seem to have moved it anyway.

Do I need to create a new account or can I use my old account? It doesn't seem to remember my old username.

by aymeric 15y ago

Do I need to create a new account or can I use my old account? It doesn't seem to remember my old username.

Maybe their not lost after all, spotted an update on their new blog: http://deliciousengineering.blogspot.com/2011/09/firefox-extension-fixed-after-long.html http://deliciousengineering.blogspot.com/2011/09/firefox-ext... (at the end..)

gizzlon 15y ago

If you didn't pay attention and authorize them to move your data, I guess it's lost? :( But seriously, I got like 5 of those.. how did you miss it?

jasonkester 15y ago
In that same span of time, how many thousands of emails from other services you signed up for but don't particularly care about at the moment did you receive? That's how you can miss something like that. For some reason, every business in the world thinks it's important enough that I am going to be constantly monitoring it to make sure I'm still signed up, active, don't want all my stuff deleted, etc. But for the most part real people can go years at a time not caring about services like this, yet still have a reasonable expectation that their stuff will still be there when they go back. As luck may have it, this interaction spurred me to check my Hotmail account again, because I used it as my backup email address for a few services several years ago and they have a nasty habit of deleting accounts for inactivity. Sure enough, all my email is gone. Evidently because it's been a few months since I logged in. Completely inexcusable, but at least I caught it before they deleted the account entirely. Amazing that companies think this is acceptable behavior.
- gizzlon 15y ago
  yeah, I see your point.. I usually quit services that send too many emails. Maybe I noticed the delicious email because they don't normally spam me.
jcfiala 15y ago
I missed it - I don't even know which email account it went to. I didn't authorize them to move anything, but they seem to have moved it anyway.