HN create account removed from login page

[thaumaturgy]

pg (or possibly another admin these days) will remove the create-account functionality if HN suddenly becomes very popular, as with the LinkedIn thread. I'm trying to find one of his comments where he mentions this, but there are 8,511 to wade through, and the obvious searches haven't found it yet.

edit: I may have misremembered; the first reference I've found was http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3481174, but I'm still looking.

edit: Gave up looking. I probably don't know what I'm talking about.

[ramchip]

Here you go: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3481174

[nostromo]

It was the day of the SOPA blackout IIRC. Redditors were bored and looking for their hit of lolcats.

[naner]

FYI Metafilter does the same thing.

[Monotoko]

I remember this too... pretty sure it had something to do with reddit.

[jsprinkles]

It was gone last night, before the LinkedIn news. I know because my session happened to expire and I noticed. At least 12 hours ago, possibly more.

[blhack]

Yeah, but if you try to comment on something, it will prompt you to create an account.

Go ahead an log out of your account and try to comment on this link.

[why-el]

Indeed that whats I tried exactly. it also makes sense for "newslogin" page to show just that, a login.

[poiu_ytrewq]

works!

[temp2012]

Also, OpenID has been removed. How do I login with my Google account?

[roel_v]

You can't anymore. There was a post a few months ago that you should set a password on the site itself to be able to continue to log on in the future (future being now, since a couple of days or maybe even weeks already).

[iSloth]

Simple, just do a password reset on your hn username and it forwards to your gmail account

[K2h]

I almost got locked out when OpenID was removed, but later found accidentally that the logon is case sensitive, and that fixed the issue for me.

[BryanB55]

That is one fancy log in page...not even a "forgot password" link.

[BryanB55]

Its funny how defensive HN readers are. I love HN and its content but I'm just wondering why there isnt a forgot password link? Seriously...?

[bravura]

Perhaps related....

The past few days I've gotten several emails from '[email protected]' telling me that I have a new password. (I received several new passwords in the past few days.)

The header seems to indicate that the message was actually sent from news.ycombinator.com.

Are these legit? Why am I receiving them? Has anyone else got one?

I've ignored them for now.

[Hannan]

If you try to log in with a valid username, but no password, you'll get a link to email yourself a newly generated password. The text of the email is:

New Hacker News pw: <new password>

So someone probably thinks they have your username and are wondering why they can't remember the password or receive an new password.

Far less likely is that someone could be trying to discover/exploit a timing attack on the forgotten password generation algorithm.

[Mz]

I have been a tad out of the loop. Can someone clue me as to what LinkedIn thingy is being referred to?

Thanks.

[thedufer]

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4073309

LinkedIn's password database leaked earlier today.

[lubos]

you can still create new account when submitting new content (while being logged off)

[pauljonas]

HN Search is broken too, or stopped updating circa 5 days ago…

…makes the site _much_ less useful for me, I must confess.

[teeray]

seriously... I have it as an autocomplete in chrome: hn[tab] and I can get community-vetted stuff ^_^

[tubbo]

countdown to people selling HN invites like it's a damn torrent tracker </joke>

hopefully this maintenence takes care of the issue of the login page being unstyled. i always thought it was supposed to go in a popup on the same page, that would make sense given its unstyled markup.

[gala8y]

I dont think we are going to see a single pop-up anytime soon on HN. (Quick edit: Site has minimal 'html/css only', _flat_ feel and pop-ups are a different breed.)

[sparknlaunch]

Noticed this today and assumed it was my local settings. Not that HN need to consult or communicate to users but was this announced?

I suspect you can still sign up but via another screen?

[kanamekun]

This is a change to the registration interface. It shouldn't impact most (any?) existing members...

The loss of openid button definitely affects existing members though...

[alttab]

This could just be maintenance. I can't imagine its good for YC's business model to shut down sign ups.

[georgespencer]

Please tell me more about YC's business model.