TypePad recently reorganised its password protection system (without telling me at least).
I just implemented a new blog which will be password protected for the moment, and found that now I need completely different and separate usernames and password for:
1. entry into the site
2. entry to each blog
3. entry to each and every photo album
But Typepad haven't implemented any hints or ways to retrieve user names or passwords.
When asked, they confirmed this:
At the moment, you would need to assign different usernames to your weblogs and photo albums to prevent this error message. Please let us know if you have any other questions.The only practical way to implement this, especially for photo albums is to have a series of usernames and passwords with numbers. Or of course to move the photo albums to Flickr, where no such nonsense applies.
I have two questions:
how do they think this helps the user?
does "at the moment" mean they are already thinking of changing this?
I'm not against password protection, or even the possibility to have different password protection for different objects. But surely you ought to be able to nominate the same one for use in more than one place (as it was before), even if it is a greater risk, (that you are aware of).
