Login screen messages

This topic was created by Dan 55 .

[Dan 55]

Login screen messages

Just noticed there are different error messages for incorrect email address and incorrect password.

This is not current Best Practice™.

[Marco Fontani]

This is not current Best Practice™.

I tend to agree, but "El Reg isn't your bank" (or Equifax *cough*) - so we opted to make it easier for users to gauge whether they had already registered with an address or not, or whether they simply placed in the wrong password - rather than giving the exact same confusing message "either email or password was wrong, use a magic eight ball to guess which".

Current Bestest Practice® would likely be to generate a unique email and password per service, so there's that ;)