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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I suspect a lot of the time this comes from the fact that it won't let you use any previously used password.

So it goes like this:

  1. create account, set password one
  2. forget password one when trying to log in, quickly reset the pass to get in, setting a new pass in the process
  3. forget that you reset the password, but remember password one again, so you try to use it
  4. doesn't work, so you reset the password again, trying to set it to what you thought it was (password one)
  5. get this error, because while password one is not the current password, it has been used before

It's still funny, because it happened to literally everyone, humans just work that way.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

This usually means that your old password expired and the system didnt notify you. Basically, your account is inactive until you set a new password.

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 2 months ago (6 children)

But you forgot the rule where it couldn't be more than 12 characters long, so you didn't try the correct variation until the validation error for the password reset told you what the rules are.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 months ago (9 children)

THIS is the one that makes me the angriest.

I'm happy to comply with your complexity requirements, but don't tell me about each one only when I've failed to meet it. That's really past the bar of shitty design into the realm of asshole design.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

I'm trying to avoid this kind of PTSD ok?

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