by Squeely » July 27th, 2016, 3:11 pm
Heh. The email provider thread reminds me of how I lost my Myspace account back around 2011. Myspace went through a site overhaul, for the worse in my opinion, and then I couldn't log into my account. Even though I was pretty darn sure what the right password was, and tried all of the ones I could think of.
That account had been linked to one of my now-dead Yahoo mail accounts, so I had no way of recovering the Myspace account. I remember you needed to be able to access your old email account before switching to a new one, and since I had gotten perma-locked out of that Yahoo account for no discernable reason, switching emails was impossible.
I wonder how many other people this happened to. I wonder how much it contributed to Myspace's decline.