{"id":471,"date":"2006-01-19T14:11:08","date_gmt":"2006-01-19T21:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp\/?p=471"},"modified":"2006-01-19T14:11:08","modified_gmt":"2006-01-19T21:11:08","slug":"msdn-blogs-password-reminder-bug-report-please-help-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/msdn-blogs-password-reminder-bug-report-please-help-microsoft\/","title":{"rendered":"msdn blogs password reminder bug report. Please help, Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><DIV>OK So I am an idiot.<\/DIV><DIV>&nbsp;<\/DIV><DIV>As a rule I don&#8217;t like blog comment registration systems so I just don&#8217;t bother. <\/DIV><DIV>&nbsp;<\/DIV><DIV>On the other hand I do want to have a dialogue with MSDN bloggers.<\/DIV><DIV>&nbsp;<\/DIV><DIV>I think\/thought\/assumed I must have registered at some point when I wanted to post something to <A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/johnmont\/\">John Montgomery<\/A> recently. So I used the password update service. And &#8220;<A href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/monkchips\/88564704\/\">apparently<\/A>&#8221; I am already registered. Well you would think so given a message that says <\/DIV><BLOCKQUOTE>  <DIV>&#8220;<STRONG>User Password Reset<BR><\/STRONG>The password has been changed   and a temporary password has been emailed to your account. Please allow up to   15 minutes for it to take effect.&#8221;<\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><DIV>The message seems unambiguous when I read it. So I waited. And waited. And&#8230; you know the rest. I wondered if it was a bug, I checked my spam filter, all that good stuff. Finally i forgot about it &#8211; the next day I tried again.<\/DIV><DIV>&nbsp;<\/DIV><DIV>You would think the service&nbsp;would actually check that an email address existed in the system before sending that message, wouldn&#8217;t you. But evidently not. <\/DIV><DIV>&nbsp;<\/DIV><DIV>It turns out you can put any old gubbins into the field and get the same message. Thanks developer.<\/DIV><DIV>&nbsp;<\/DIV><DIV>So I am an idiot but I am fairly sure I am not the only one. A friendly word then to the msdn team- please fix the app, to save other idiots from waiting and waiting and waiting&#8230;<\/DIV><DIV>&nbsp;<\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK So I am an idiot.&nbsp;As a rule I don&#8217;t like blog comment registration systems so I just don&#8217;t bother. &nbsp;On the other hand I do want to have a dialogue with MSDN bloggers.&nbsp;I think\/thought\/assumed I must have registered at some point when I wanted to post something to John Montgomery recently. So I used<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wfjh-7B","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}