Comment by komali2 | Hacker News Reader

Comment by komali2 | Hacker News Reader

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I bet one hundred dollars that if I tried to login to my old Skype account right now, it would take an hour to figure out how the fuck to reset my password, because"Microsoft account" bullshit.

I bet it would take me three hours to make a new account, for the same reason.

Try making an account for Microsoft's iot cloud thing. Good luck.

Edit: https://youtu.be/lfby-SOWWqQ

So, holy shit, somehow it auto populated maybe using Google smart Lock, and logged me straight in... To an account I don't remember ever creating. No contacts or anything so it's not my old legacy account. Lemme see about logging in on my old one

Edit2: guess it's time for me to eat my own words. I definitely remember this being an absolute nightmare. Turns out the hardest part was accessing my decade and a half old Yahoo account https://youtu.be/QVLz08OiMGk all my old contacts are lost though :( bye bye old WoW guildmates

I do maintain that the iot site is garbage and I still can't log in or create an account on it.

So are you going to donate that $100 to charity?

Yea when my last paycheck of the month comes in I'll donate a hundred more than normal, probably to rancho San Antonios little farm thing.

Speaking of lost bets: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6703467

I just lost a 5-year bet for $10 to Keyframe (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Keyframe)

It would be mildly interesting to have an HN-bets type service, with the proceeds going to charity.

This website is not very active, but it does what you want : http://longbets.org/

This is a job for .... <insert fanfare> .... blockchain!

I thought I was the only one suffering with this!

Same here! I even saved my password in KeePass only to find I still can't login!

When I started reading this I assumed when you said old account that you were after your contacts, not some vanity url.

From that standpoint you didn’t really get what you were after, despite the process not being as painful as you anticipated. So maybe you didn’t make your point, but you made a point.

I just had this yesterday. Tried to log in, password forgotten, so went through password reset.

Logged in with new password ‘suspicious activity’ (my failed logins before reset) ‘you now must reset your password.’ WTF, I just did minutes ago!

The microsoft account page has greatly improved over the years... if its been that long since you skyped your guild mates what would that have anything to do with anything?

At least some of their other stuff is a nightmare. I still haven't figured out how to use their oauth correctly, or use their iot stuff at all.

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