Either outright remove the capability to reset your password or add an unskippable warning

crow-puncher — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 02:35:38 GMT

Can anyone tell me why you would ever want to reset your password? If you can't even get your data back, you aren't resetting your password. You are pretty much deleting your account. The misleading option to reset your password has destroyed my data twice now, where when i was tired and not thinking very hard I choose the obvious option to reset my password instead of looking through my files for the recovery key. This was stupid, but it was also stupid how light the warning was. There was a single minimized yellow box with vague wording unless you clicked it open. Additionally, resetting one's password is a fairly standardized process that one doesn't expect much deviation from.

As such, I think it would be a great boon to the user experience to either rename resetting your password to something more clear(delete/reset account) or add a warning one must click through in order to do so. As it is, resetting one's password is an unclear and unintuitive process that does not do what one thinks it does and differs strongly from the language used by the rest of the internet.

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Either outright remove the capability to reset your password or add an unskippable warning