Can you let us change our passwords?

July 2, 2006 9:04 PM

Can we please have the ability to change our passwords built into the site? It's an overdue feature, no?
posted by riffola to Feature Requests at 9:04 PM (53 comments total)

I don't want to be torrezed by Matt when I ask him to change my password. Plus it's not that hard to code it, is it?
posted by riffola at 9:06 PM on July 2, 2006

Yikes, we can't change our passwords?
posted by evariste at 9:11 PM on July 2, 2006

And what the heck is torrezed?
posted by evariste at 9:11 PM on July 2, 2006

When you ask someone to change your password for you & they do so but don't tell you what the new password is.
posted by riffola at 9:12 PM on July 2, 2006

And what the heck is torrezed?

It's a brand of coffee.
posted by cortex at 9:16 PM on July 2, 2006

i once got manx*d so hard in my face.

i'm just saying is all.
posted by the_ill_gino at 9:25 PM on July 2, 2006

yeah, I'll throw it on the maintenance pile.

I'm having much more fun working from the innovation pile though.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 9:36 PM on July 2, 2006

riffola writes "When you ask someone to change your password for you & they do so but don't tell you what the new password is."

There's a word for that?
posted by brundlefly at 9:36 PM on July 2, 2006

Thanks Matt. Innovations are great but a little touch ups here & there go a long way towards improving the site too.
posted by riffola at 9:39 PM on July 2, 2006

the maintenance pile/the innovation pile: I am stealing this idea. I'm not doing the dishes in the sink (maintenance pile), because I would rather draw mustaches on the people in the latest issue of Vanity Fair (innovation pile).

Thanks Matt!
posted by evariste at 9:40 PM on July 2, 2006

evariste, that's kind of lame. Read riffola's comment, and see how one can articulate what you're saying without being an asshole.
posted by brundlefly at 10:06 PM on July 2, 2006

brundlefly-I wasn't criticizing Matt, honest. I was just trying (apparently unsuccessfully) to make a funny. And I really do like the maintenance pile/innovation pile distinction, because right now I just have an uncategorized "todo list" for my each of my projects. So I started off saying "I am stealing this idea" because I do think it's brilliant, and then I tried to make a joke.
posted by evariste at 10:13 PM on July 2, 2006

So, my assholery was not intentional.
posted by evariste at 10:13 PM on July 2, 2006

And I'm certainly not criticizing Matt's idea of an innovation pile, such as this music.metafilter.com site, I think it's brilliant. So you see, it was more of self deprecation, as in "I took Matt's good idea to bizarre and inapplicable extremes".

I'll stop explaining myself now, sheesh. I just don't want to come off as the asshole I seem to have. It was a joke.
posted by evariste at 10:15 PM on July 2, 2006

Hey, sorry for misinterpreting. No hard feelings?
posted by brundlefly at 10:29 PM on July 2, 2006

Whew! No hard feelings, mate.
posted by evariste at 10:32 PM on July 2, 2006

Yeah, kind of a bad day for me. I apologize for jumping the gun there...

*becomes stereotypical Irish/American cop*
Carry on. Nothing to see here. Move it along....
posted by brundlefly at 10:36 PM on July 2, 2006

no hard feelings but I'm still happy to see you
posted by register at 10:47 PM on July 2, 2006

Eww...
posted by evariste at 11:10 PM on July 2, 2006

no jumping teh gun for you!
posted by register at 11:20 PM on July 2, 2006

No kidding... No, WAIT! I'm an asshole on the internets now. Don't I deserve a medal or something? A $%$##$%$ with Anne Coulter? Something?
posted by brundlefly at 11:52 PM on July 2, 2006

I'm really curious what variety of kink is being censored by those symbols.
posted by evariste at 12:47 AM on July 3, 2006

I'm having much more fun working from the innovation pile though.

Didn't you get the meme? The innovation is the new maintenence! There is only one pile! Who needs useless features like changing your password when you have rocking hardcore (acoustic antifolk) features like MeFi Music?
posted by public at 1:45 AM on July 3, 2006

I'm really curious what variety of kink is being censored by those symbols.

Cincinnati Hotplate.

*strongly supports the Innovation Pile*
posted by cortex at 6:03 AM on July 3, 2006

There couldn't be more innocuous thread and it's still "you're an asshole".
posted by bonaldi at 6:04 AM on July 3, 2006

I'm an asshole on the internets now. Don't I deserve a medal or something?

*yawns*
posted by quonsar at 6:11 AM on July 3, 2006

*gapes*
posted by PinkStainlessTail at 6:38 AM on July 3, 2006

ew.
posted by rxrfrx at 6:41 AM on July 3, 2006

I'm having much more fun working from the innovation pile though.

*points finger, shrieks* MICROSOFT! BURN HIM!
posted by Ryvar at 7:33 AM on July 3, 2006

Metafilter : more fun working from the innovation pile
posted by The Jesse Helms at 8:12 AM on July 3, 2006

I've set up a Metafilter change-password form; just fill out the textarea at the bottom of this page and hit the "Post Comment" button, and you will be notified of the change.
posted by brownpau at 8:34 AM on July 3, 2006

tummytoe
posted by cortex at 8:41 AM on July 3, 2006

!

I've been h4x0red! Curse you, brownpau!
posted by cortex at 8:41 AM on July 3, 2006

password
posted by Mr. Six at 9:25 AM on July 3, 2006

It looked better in preview.
posted by Mr. Six at 9:26 AM on July 3, 2006

cortex did you get that from a bit of fry and laurie?
posted by small_ruminant at 9:30 AM on July 3, 2006

Indeed, via the potayto/potahto thread on the green.
posted by cortex at 9:34 AM on July 3, 2006

I missed that one. Not so random then...
posted by small_ruminant at 9:59 AM on July 3, 2006

swordfish
posted by boo_radley at 10:12 AM on July 3, 2006

riffola, is the word "torrezzed" taken from The Site Which Will Not Be Named?
posted by jonson at 10:24 AM on July 3, 2006

you mean the site where people illegally share copyrighted material called FILEPILE?
posted by keswick at 11:02 AM on July 3, 2006

I didn't realize there was enough copyrighted material called FILEPILE to justify a whole site.
posted by cortex at 11:13 AM on July 3, 2006

up against the wall kids, it's the grammar nazi
posted by keswick at 11:23 AM on July 3, 2006

I made up the word "torrezed" for giggles, there's no etymology to it. I doubt it'll catch on either since there's no real reason for the word to exist. Like brundlefly above asked, it's not something that happens once in a blue moon let alone often to need a word for it.

No hidden sites or cults behind it, really.
posted by riffola at 11:32 AM on July 3, 2006

Not so much Naziism as it is joyful revelrly in the ambiguity of some perfectly well-constructed sentences.
posted by cortex at 11:57 AM on July 3, 2006

This thread has just been brianked.
posted by stx23 at 12:33 PM on July 3, 2006

I'm perplexed.
posted by machaus at 12:36 PM on July 3, 2006

this thread has just been perplexed.
posted by register at 12:37 PM on July 3, 2006

Ha! Like "perplexed" is real word.
posted by brundlefly at 12:55 PM on July 3, 2006

Ha! Like "brundlefly" is real piler.
posted by stx23 at 2:09 PM on July 3, 2006

Torrezed!
Bit-torrezed!
Bit-torrezent!
Bit-torreprezent!

I don't know where I'm going with this.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 11:00 PM on July 3, 2006

Afroblanco writes "I always thought that not being able to change your password was one of those amusing little quirks that make MeFi MeFi."

It's not amusing.
posted by Mitheral at 7:13 AM on July 4, 2006

Well at least it's no longer in plaintext in the source of every page. That's a plus.
posted by raedyn at 1:07 PM on July 4, 2006