Password Recovery in Feature Requests

ID:109988
 
Feb 23 2011, 9:24 pm
Applies to:Website
Status: Open
Issue hasn't been assigned a status value.
Random comment on Reddit:
"The account recovery for Byond is ridiculous. It says my email has already been used to create an account, so i figured i'll recover whatever account someone made when they used my email address.

It wants to know the account name in order for it to resend/reset the password. How the [heck] would i know?"

The password recovery page should also have an email field for situations where you can't remember what key you registered.
#1 Feb 23 2011, 11:46 pm
Ok, but I'm not looking forward to the support requests from people's whose keys are stolen because their email is hacked. Hotmail's security has to be the worst on the planet.
#2 Feb 24 2011, 7:02 am
Well, you can't really be held responsible for people having a 32-character password then using their birthday as a security question.
#3 Feb 27 2011, 7:11 pm
Majority of the "stolen" (or "hacked") accounts on my games are because the players hand out their passwords like candy on Halloween.