If you forget your user name - you are dead!

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If you forget your user name - you are dead!

Postby AnalogueMan » 14 Sep 2013 09:56

OK. Maybe not dead, but you are fuc... in trouble.

You cannot send yourself a password reset email if you don't remember your user name. And if you know the email address you used when you registered and your password, you still cannot login nor send yourself a "forgot your username?" email.

For a current user, this isn't a problem. But one who registered years ago to ask a question and leave, to return later... he's in trouble if he cannot remember his username. He will have to use a new account, which most forums frown upon, because since you do not expire inactive accounts, that email address cannot be reused.

Forgetting your username = dead is true.

(Most phpbb boards are not set up this way; this choice should be revisited.)

Thanks for reading.

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Postby Ludrax » 14 Sep 2013 19:22

Most phpbb boards are not set up this way; this choice should be revisited.
[RFC] forgot username and an old email address
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Re: If you forget your user name - you are dead!

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 15 Sep 2013 22:44

You can also mail us and we give the username back.
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Re: If you forget your user name - you are dead!

Postby FabeTed321 » 19 Sep 2013 13:08

Why not just keep your password in a safe place like you should do with all your accounts? And like the admin said I'm sure they wont mind to help you out when you can access the forum anymore.
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Re: If you forget your user name - you are dead!

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 26 Sep 2013 02:25

Or just ask.
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Re: If you forget your user name - you are dead!

Postby abbyroadkill » 21 Dec 2013 09:11

or have an awesome name like mine that you'll never forget :D


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