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We're turning off Clickpass March 15. How to keep your HN account.

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We're turning off Clickpass March 15. How to keep your HN account.

#1
We're going to stop supporting Clickpass on March 15. If you use Clickpass to log in to Hacker News, please

(1) put your email address in your profile (no one can see it except you and us), then

(2) change your password by going to http://news.ycombinator.com/changepw.

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#4
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While we're on this topic, can you add a note to the profile page that says that email isn't publicly visible? This seems to be a common source of confusion.

There's already a bright yellow box that informs you about that, but it only shows when the e-mail field is empty.

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#5
post #2

While we're on this topic, can you add a note to the profile page that says that email isn't publicly visible? This seems to be a common source of confusion.

i think there's a note there already that the email address will not be publicized.

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#6
post #4
post #2

While we're on this topic, can you add a note to the profile page that says that email isn't publicly visible? This seems to be a common source of confusion.

There's already a bright yellow box that informs you about that, but it only shows when the e-mail field is empty.

Hmm, okay. It still seems that people are often confused by this, though.

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post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's already a bright yellow box that informs you about that, but it only shows when the e-mail field is empty.

Hmm, okay. It still seems that people are often confused by this, though.

I'd lean towards a check box with 'make e-mail address visible (to registered users)'. That way you get the implicit message that it's invisible by default and can share it if you like.

Re: We're turning off Clickpass March 15. How to keep your HN account.

#10

I just followed the steps, but I'm getting a "Bad login." message when I try to sign in using Chrome's incognito mode. How long before the new username/password combo works?

It should work immediately. So either you mistyped something or incognito mode does something that breaks login.
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