This thread is frustrating. Everyone seems more interested in nitpicking the specifics of what OP is saying and are ignoring that a forum sends you your password (not an automatically generated one) in an email on registration.

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The one they were sending at registration was prior to hashing. It would not be reversible afterwards.

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That’s technically less terrible, then.

Good for them. /s

Edited to add the /s for clarity, because the NIST recommended remediation in 2023 for emailing a password is “burn everything down and pretend the organization never existed”. /s

Again, adding that /s since that’s not actually what NIST says to do, and I am, at best, paraphrasing.

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