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		styfle on June 26, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Reddit’s disrespectful design A somewhat counterpoint to the first example in the article: I created a Reddit account (11 years ago) without an email address and forgot the password. Now there is no way to reset the password and recover the account. I never bothered to create a new account so I just stopped using Reddit in most cases.

rognjen on June 27, 2021 [–]

It's not requiring an email that's bad. It's making it look like it's required but not saying that it's not.

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