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Hm, well it works fine for me as well - reset my password and got the email instantly. So the lesson learned here is, rather than write a blistering criticism
by droithomme 14y ago
Hm, well it works fine for me as well - reset my password and got the email instantly.
So the lesson learned here is, rather than write a blistering criticism of a free service, make sure you are right. A better way to handle it would be to have posted here a question asking others if password emailing worked for them or if it was just the OP. This would have done a bunch better job of determining if it was broken at the HN side or somewhere between there and one's mailboxes.
- al_james 14y agoWhilst I agree with your point, the problem is a quest (like "Ask HN: Does the password reset work for you?") would probably have sunk to the bottom without anyone seeing it. Not a judgement on HN, but rather a judgement on human nature!
- delan-temp 14y agoSomething like that happened, actually; I did make a submission [1] like the kind you suggested and received almost no response. [1] http://hackerne.ws/item?id=4082564 http://hackerne.ws/item?id=4082564
- ricardobeat 14y agoIs hackerne.ws an official alias for news.ycombinator.com? I'm a bit wary of logging in to two different sessions/domains.
- cocoflunchy 14y agoYes it is.
- aethr 14y agoEdit: I think some would probably view that as the appropriate response.
- perlgeek 14y agoOr simpler, create a new account and test the password mailing function with it.
- delan-temp 14y agoI did do this, in fact. My second last email describes how I created a new account and made sure that the associated email address was entered correctly, but still no email was received.