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How do you know whether it's common or not? I've sat there several times trying to remember my password, remember whether I used Clickpass or not, etc. Finally,
by zellynhunter 18y ago
How do you know whether it's common or not? I've sat there several times trying to remember my password, remember whether I used Clickpass or not, etc. Finally, I just decide it's not worth commenting, and close the browser tab. (Posting under newly created account because I still can't figure out my old account's password.)
- pg 18y agoWe log failed login attempts.
- diN0bot 18y agosomeone doing a few failed logins before successfully logging in won't look all that different than someone doing a few failed logins and then giving up, which is what most humans would do (as opposed to scripts). people naturally tend to have a small number of cross products of usernames and passwords...once it gets too large we start forgetting parts of it. a couple times in the past year i've forgotten my password for hn. after the first time it happened i wrote it down so i wouldn't lose my precious karma.
- diego 18y agoPassword retrieval has been a standard feature for any website for many years. It's easy to do for users who have an email in their profile, and it gives the rest a good reason to enter it. When I created my account I added my email because I assumed that the feature existed. Good thing I haven't forgotten my password.
- DTrejo 18y agoHow many accounts are inactive and with the last few logins failed?
- EGF 18y agoI am in exactly the same position - I abandoned an old account since there was no way to do this.
- miracle 18y agoI also reregistred because I forgot the password of my old account
- oneplusone 18y agosame here. 2nd account.
- ttol 18y agoalso reregistered
- jakestein 18y agoalso registered twice
- nopassrecover 18y agoWhy do you think my username is nopassrecover.