Thank to your twisted mind :p
Thats why I love HN you always find your way around ;)
Thank to your twisted mind :p
Thats why I love HN you always find your way around ;)
The less data you give to users about state that isn't necessarily theirs, the better.
Maybe HN can work out a good solution collectively? I can only think of a secondary authentication piece, but then that's also possible to be forgotten.
It doesn't really solve the problem of figuring out which email address you used to create your account, but it allows you to provide feedback to the user that the account does/does not exist.
An alternative solution would be to just email whatever account you enter on the website, with the appropriate wording depending whether or not they have an existing account, but this approach seems like it'd be too easy to spam random people.
Though, I'm not sure if you can get e-mail from these, and making the users enter their e-mail after login would degrade the user experience.
If someone wants to reset their password, after they enter their email address say "Thanks. If that email address is in our database we will send a reset link."