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iSmokeweed
Posts: 4793 - Karma: 1,370
like NS was down.
Jul 6 2012 9:35AM
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MacMahoooon
Posts: 9009 - Karma: 3,305
We were getting more bad ass
Jul 6 2012 9:37AM
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iSmokeweed
Posts: 4793 - Karma: 1,370
oh ok. thanks guys!
Jul 6 2012 9:44AM
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Mag
Posts: 8155 - Karma: 14,809
What changes were made?
Jul 6 2012 9:58AM
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nopoles
Posts: 2216 - Karma: 886
The biggest change was an overhaul of our authentication system.  Essentially the login system hasn't changed since Harvey wrote it 10 years ago (!!), and the hash algorithm used at the time only read the first 8 characters of your password.  So until this morning, you could omit anything after the first 8 characters of your password when logging in.

Todays update changes this.  Now passwords are stored in an ultra secure bcrypt-based "slow hash" algorithm.  Now you have to type in your full password to login.

The update also included a few bug fixes and an update to the Quick Edit tool in the media galleries. 

You can always find out what we changed by reading the "Version Info" page linked in the footer.
Jul 6 2012 10:29AM
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Mag
Posts: 8155 - Karma: 14,809
Thanks.
Jul 6 2012 10:34AM
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Childstar.
Posts: 1947 - Karma: 2,213
This may be a problem.... I Realized that it only read 8 characters, when My password was longer, but I forgot the rest of my password after the 8 letters... logging in when I log out will be fun .... :/
Jul 6 2012 12:47PM
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nopoles
Posts: 2216 - Karma: 886
Make sure your e-mail is up to date in your profile.  You can recover your password if you later have trouble logging in.
Jul 6 2012 1:06PM
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NinetyFour
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Sick, thanks for fixing that password issue.
Jul 6 2012 1:14PM
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aloha.
Posts: 412 - Karma: 163
Everything looks sweet, loving the new reply box, and it fixed all my problems that i had previously encountered with my older browser. Too many to list, but I'm stoked! Thanks.
Jul 6 2012 4:38PM
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a_pla5tic_bag
Posts: 9217 - Karma: 5,399
is the splash page still down? i keep trying to go the that and it says you're still getting badass.
Jul 7 2012 8:36AM
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theline
Posts: 1507 - Karma: 92
this happened to me when i went to my old bookmarked link to the site. switch your bookmark to the new splash page and you're good to go.
Jul 7 2012 8:48PM
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a_pla5tic_bag
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yeah i figured that was the issue and did that just now.
Jul 8 2012 10:51AM
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