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[–] [email protected] 188 points 9 months ago (13 children)

It's not quite complete without code on the password reset page to tell you that you can't reuse your password.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

I've had that before and I'm very confident the password was correct - my theory is that they'd changed how non-ASCII characters like £ were handled and their code only half recognised my password.

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