> I did have someone try to take it over about a decade ago
I either didn't have mine linked to a recovery email or lost access to that email account. Tried to get back into the account somewhere in the aughts but no longer knew the password, and thus was out of luck. But then I discovered some years later that someone else had taken it over, as it was associated with some Russian thing. Oh well.
Nothing is going to happen. I have seen this several times now, and support does not lift one finger to give back the account to the original owner. Expect russian spambots to post images in a few weeks time.
Seems to be a recurring thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18715866
Here is the situation:
- The account is old. Like 4-5 years. There is around 150 subscribers if I recall correctly and the product is now defunct. So it is not a big deal.
- It is not about cryptocurrencies. (WordPress product)
- No emails/campaigns were actually sent.
I went to check my emails and there is no deactivation notice. There doesn't seem to be a way to access my old list or my old account.
I didn't lose any data as I didn't need the old data. I was starting a new service and I need a mailing list. Guess I'll need to shop for a new provider or run my own.
The email provider that account was tied to doesn't exist anymore, and the domain is taken. I didn't notice until after it happened, so I am not putting all the blame on reddit. It's more of a string of unlucky circumstances. Who knows if I could have even changed it without access to the email account, anyway.
Fun fact: Reddit for the longest time didn't require an email address to create accounts.
Although I obviously have older accounts, I’ve pretty much lost all of them except GitHub. Have gone through 5 email providers over the span of its life
Do you want me to provide you with the email trail? I remember paying for the account.
EDIT: Did you warn customers that their data (maybe a couple of megabytes) would be deleted? Did you offer me "upgrade to keep your data"? You simply disrespect our data. Also, your service was down for months if not years!
EDIT 2: Yes, you did say free accounts would probably get deleted after just 2 months without logging in.
My email thread [0] starts with me being certain I've paid for the account - that was 7 years ago and my memory back then was outstanding. Your free account had a limit of like 500 links and I had thousands and my account was paid for sure, but I was one of you first users and probably it was deleted by mistake or some flawed data migration.
Please, respect customers' data, it should be sacred - even if they are not paying customers! It didn't cost much to store links, even back in 2010!
But Mail.ru deleted old accounts. So...
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