Feral Heart

Update/Overview, colour coded for ease of understanding because too many email variations:

I was attempting to change my email from email1@example .com to email2@example .com but the site was saying there was already an account with the email email2@example .com which I know for a fact is untrue as I had checked the email (junk and spam included) to see if I had any account confirmation emails and I also tried a "retrieve password/username", to which the site said there was no user registered with the email email2@example .com

I then attempted to change the email to a junk email account (email3@example .com) I had as a temporary measure as I needed to delete email1@example .com, which resulted in me being locked out (shock horror) of the account with no means of getting back in as I never received a confirmation of email change on email3@example .com.

I contacted staff member "Bawfle" on a old FH account I still had access to and managed to get my account (Liony) re opened luckily.

However, this account is now apparently tied to the email email3@example .com, which I was sure I had misspelled.

I'm going to go ahead and assume that there may be an issue with the site, as it refused to change my email to email2@example .com "because there was already a user with this email" but let me change it to email3@example .com, and then never sent me a email change confirmation email to it.

Also, when I tried to "retrieve" the username for this account just to test whether the email was in working order, the site is saying there is no user registered with email3@example .com.

So. Either there's; 1. an issue with the site, or 2. a staff member had changed it for me as I had mentioned I tried to change this account's email to email3@example .com, or 3. this all happened because I have insanely bad luck.

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It's a shame I can't change this account's email to email2@example .com as it's still saying there's a user registered with that email address but at least my account is no longer tied to email1@example .com so I can delete it.

I don't intend on forgetting my password anytime soon, so in my eyes it doesn't matter if the site pretends this account isn't now linked to email3@example .com. Hopefully it'll sort itself out.

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Cheers to staff member "Bawfle" (BigBangTheory) for sorting my problem.

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Edited: Edited email examples so the colouring worked, curse links and their pre-determined color that prevent them from being coloured.

I think I know the problem.

A good while ago (think months) my brother asked me if I could make an account for him and I told him he had to wait for the registration to open if he wanted an account, but he wanted me to try it anyway so I did, just to prove to him I couldn't sign him up for one because who wants to constantly listen to their sibling whine at you? (I went directly to this page to show him he couldn't "cheat" the registration opening hour/s: http://feral-heart.com/index.php?option=com_alpharegistration&view=register&lang=en&Itemid)

Anyway, I have just remembered this, but I think I used the email "[email protected]", to demonstrate this, and of course this is the email I was trying to change this account over to, I used it back then because I thought "I'll never need this email for this site" because I am beyond stupid.

So I think in the process of me attempting to sign up to the site while registration was closed just to get my brother to stop asking me made the site think that the "[email protected]" was registered, but obviously, it's certainly not.

If a staff member happens to see this thread/post(?) could they perhaps privately message me so I could tell them the email I am trying to change this account to and having issues with so whatever "ghost account" is tied to it can be deleted?

(TLDR; don't try to prove to your siblings who want a FH account that you can't "cheat" the registration, because it'll mess up big time. Whoops.) I am literal FH garbage.

There is a way to change the email address of your FH account, the problem I am encountering is that when I go to change my email address, (Profile > Account Related Settings), I get a red box at the top that I can not change my email to "[email protected]" because a FH user is already registered with that email address.

However when I log into "[email protected]" on the email website, I can find no such email saying I have registered at FH with this email and when trying to retrieve a password for the supposedly in use email, I get another message from the site in a box saying that no FH user is registered with that email.

I think it's a fault of the site, I'll try contacting staff about it.