Hi, it currently appears to me that the LW2 functionality around ‘recovery email’ addresses is subtly broken, and if I am correct, this will impact LW1 users who did not set a recovery email until after the first database import to LesserWrong, as well as any users wishing to change their associated ‘recovery’ email in the future. Please see this subthread (or GreaterWrong link) for details about the issue. I’m not confident that opening a formal “issue” ticket on GitHub would be appropriate here, because all I have is circumstantial evidence, and I am quite unsure how things were expected to work in the first place. However, I do think some cursory attention from the devs would very much be appropriate, if only to ascertain whether there’s an actual issue here.
Thanks for letting us know! I figured out what the bug was.
It seemed that for users who were imported from LW1 and who didn’t have an email set at the time of the import, didn’t get their email properly updated when edited. I fixed this bug locally and will push that before we move to LW1.
Hi, it currently appears to me that the LW2 functionality around ‘recovery email’ addresses is subtly broken, and if I am correct, this will impact LW1 users who did not set a recovery email until after the first database import to LesserWrong, as well as any users wishing to change their associated ‘recovery’ email in the future. Please see this subthread (or GreaterWrong link) for details about the issue. I’m not confident that opening a formal “issue” ticket on GitHub would be appropriate here, because all I have is circumstantial evidence, and I am quite unsure how things were expected to work in the first place. However, I do think some cursory attention from the devs would very much be appropriate, if only to ascertain whether there’s an actual issue here.
Thanks for letting us know! I figured out what the bug was.
It seemed that for users who were imported from LW1 and who didn’t have an email set at the time of the import, didn’t get their email properly updated when edited. I fixed this bug locally and will push that before we move to LW1.