Shawn

Currently you can login as your display name..e.g. 'Shawn' or 'MW_Rocks' and your user account password. I am going to change this so you will login to the forums with your EMAIL ADDRESS and your user account password. Your email address will continue to be private/hidden, and your user name will still be shown as before...it is just the logging in part. This will allow us to add one extra level of protection. Going to activate it later this week. Shawn

Currently you can login as your display name..e.g. 'Shawn' or 'MW_Rocks' and your user account password. I am going to change this so you will login to the forums with your EMAIL ADDRESS and your user account password. Your email address will continue to be private/hidden, and your user name will still be shown as before...it is just the logging in part. This will allow us to add one extra level of protection. Going to activate it later this week. Shawn

Currently you can login as your display name..e.g. 'Shawn' or 'MW_Rocks' and your user account password. I am going to change this so you will login to the forums with your EMAIL ADDRESS and your user account password. Your email address will continue to be private/hidden, and your user name will still be shown as before...it is just the logging in part. This will allow us to add one extra level of protection. Going to activate it later this week. Shawn

Currently you can login as your display name..meaning 'Shawn' and your user account password. I am going to change this so you will login to the forums with your EMAIL ADDRESS and your user account password. Your email address will continue to be hidden, your user name will still be shown as before This will allow us to add one extra level of protection. Shawn

ok...all users re-confirmed If you are having a problem resetting your password: turn off your vpn or use your cellular provider, create a new macrossworld account, pm me you old user name I'll look up your new user account IP address and see if it exists under your old account prior to Jan 2021 I'll then update your old user account with the new email, delete your new user, and force a password reset on your old so simple...doh!

Discovering that in our 20 years here...we've outlived many ISPs Lots of old hotmail accounts too! LOL Feeling super old doing this...

4 out of 6 resolved... Also discovered you can make a post on your phone using your cellular service, and I can use that IP as a lookup into history as well. Apparently the Invision Board software has a 'logged in using this IP address' historical report, which is proving extremely useful right now.

Ok, the IP adress history is working for 2 out of 3 accounts so far, so this should be able to work for some of us. Again, I'm sorry to ask you to do this, but if you are using VPN, please turn if off for a message or two to me, then you can re-enable. The forum software might take a little time to aggregate the info into its report, so please be patient until the info is presented to me. My methodology is to looking up the current IP of your temp account to the old account from dec 21 and earlier (well before hacker person started the trouble...I assume) If I see the IP there it is a go.

If you are VPN user, I would ask for your to try and use your original phone or computer account for a post or two to help me match your current vs old. VPNs are really screwing this up...as they are meant to do! 😛

I am working through the following user accounts (orig,temp new) Alphahorizon,Alphahorizon_2 sh9000,sh002 Drad,Darkonnen derex3592,derex3593 yman1437,yman1437_2 When I am re-verifying who you are, I'm using IP recorded IP addresses and devices as the first round. It is really hard to 'prove' if the new you is the old you...imagine saying 'yeah..I'm me, I swear'...when your IP address is in a different state, or bouncing around all over locations when your old usage showed a different usage pattern. It might have been easier to just close for For Sale section LOL...this is a hot mess, but work with me. Anything about your old profile would be very helpful to me right now...I really hate asking for any personal information about location, but this might be the exception. S

I'll scrub through the account email issues later tonight...will close the other alert threads so I can focus on this one for getting members back on track Seems like most people have had success getting their accounts reset (I know it was annoying), the problematic ones with old emails and things will be resolved tonight. We've been online for over 20 years...so I can definitely understand how some email providers have simply vanished...and if your MWF account just worked...well it just worked. Shawn

There is no real winning solution....and again sorry for the troubles, I sort of went nuclear when I saw the 2nd account compromised by reuse I also enabled stronger passwords, so the older 'pass123' from 10 years ago won't work anymore either Hopefully we can put this password re-use issue behind us soon

If the password reset functionality is working...I'll see some recent posts, so let me know if you able to get back into the forums, else I'll start checking for errors S

If the password reset functionality is working...I'll see some recent posts, so let me know if you able to get back into the forums, else I'll start checking for errors S

If the password reset functionality is working...I'll see some recent posts, so let me know if you able to get back into the forums, else I'll start checking for errors S

If the password reset functionality is working...I'll see some recent posts, so let me know if you able to get back into the forums, else I'll start checking for errors S

I am forcing all members to change their passwords...2 re-uses in 1 week is just too much Sorry for the troubles...hopefully this clears out old potential account targets Let me know if you have problems...asssuming you can reset and log back in 😛 Oh man...this blows Shawn

I am forcing all members to change their passwords...2 re-uses in 1 week is just too much Sorry for the troubles...hopefully this clears out old potential account targets Let me know if you have problems...asssuming you can reset and log back in 😛 Oh man...this blows Shawn

I am forcing all members to change their passwords...2 re-uses in 1 week is just too much Sorry for the troubles...hopefully this clears out old potential account targets Let me know if you have problems...asssuming you can reset and log back in 😛 Oh man...this blows Shawn

This is the 2nd time we've had someone use an old/reused password on the boards to post in the sales section maliciously. I suggest everyone change their passwords immedietely...I might try to see if I can do a forum wide force for everyone. Again PLEASE don't REUSE passwords from other sites...once one site is compromised, if you use that password somewhere else, they've can get in here (or someplace much more important than a robot forum!!) Shawn

This is the 2nd time we've had someone use an old/reused password on the boards to post in the sales section maliciously. I suggest everyone change their passwords immedietely...I might try to see if I can do a forum wide force for everyone. Again PLEASE don't REUSE passwords from other sites...once one site is compromised, if you use that password somewhere else, they've can get in here (or someplace much more important than a robot forum!!) Shawn

This is the 2nd time we've had someone use an old/reused password on the boards to post in the sales section maliciously. I suggest everyone change their passwords immedietely...I might try to see if I can do a forum wide force for everyone. Again PLEASE don't REUSE passwords from other sites...once one site is compromised, if you use that password somewhere else, they've can get in here (or someplace much more important than a robot forum!!) Shawn

This is the 2nd time we've had someone use an old/reused password on the boards to post in the sales section. I suggest everyone change their passwords immedietely...I might try to see if I can do a forum wide force for everyone. Again PLEASE don't REUSE passwords from other sites...once one site is compromised, if you use that password somewhere else, they've can get in here (or someplace much more important than a robot forum!!) Shawn

Its been postponed until May 31st...guess they are adding all sorts of new cool things! (they still haven't contact me to help out! LOL)

Wow.... So at what point in our lives did we just say 'oh heck...I can make that rea-life kit look exactly like a painting'? Or a cel? I mean how did we all collectively just level up from 'weathered' to this all of a sudden? I find it absolutely insane.