This thread is frustrating. Everyone seems more interested in nitpicking the specifics of what OP is saying and are ignoring that a forum sends you your password (not an automatically generated one) in an email on registration.

  • Kevin@lemmy.world
    421·
    1 year ago

    People weren’t really nitpicking.

    • it’s obviously bad to send an email with a plaintext password
    • the website owners had apparently already resolved the issue
    • it does not mean the passwords were stored in plaintext
    • the OP sounds like a skiddie in a bunch of comments and doesn’t seem to understand how most websites with auth work