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.

  • JackbyDev@programming.devOP
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    1 year ago

    Also if they store a copy of that email they’re effectively storing the password in plaintext even if they e properly made a salty hash brown for the database.