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Comment by melicerte | Hacker News Reader

That's an interesting point indeed. When you are fired from your job, you don't often have the time to connect to all our accounts based on your email address to change it. Just checked their FAQ[1] but this does not seems to be covered. Any clue someone?

[1] at the bottom of this page: https://medium.com/the-story/signing-in-to-medium-by-email-a...

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I asked Medium about this. They replied, "if you don't have your Twitter/Facebook account connected to your Medium account, you won't be able to sign in at all. You'll need to contact us to regain access to your account. If you don't want this to happen, please do not use an email address you think you won't be using in the future."

I can't figure what is the Medium process when they are being contacted to regain access to an account.

In a near future, we could have a "Argh I lost my email address" link replacing the now very common "I lost my password". Nevertheless, I have no clue what would be a standard process to recover a lost account because of a lost email address, maybe a SMS based process and personal questions like "what was your first pet name?"

Maybe this isn't practical for some people, but I think it's bad practice to use your work credentials for something you plan to "take with you" when you leave. Best to keep a strict separation of work and personal credentials.

Yes and no. Yes, obviously for your bank account or something that is very personal.

But as an IT manager, you could enforce people from your company to use their work email address for accounts that are directly linked to your company activity. For instance, We use a online tracker[1] for Use cases management. When someone leave the company, it does not have access to its email account. Consequently, he/she would no longer have access to our tracker by not having access to its email address. This could rather convenient scheme.

[1] Pivotal tracker (who requires password to connect).

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