Neocities login verification issue

[isomorphie]

Hi all, has anyone experienced being locked out of their Neocities account before?

Today, I tried to login, and was hit with a verification screen. The verification code was sent to the email I used to sign up for my Neocities. I rarely check this email, because I only use it for sign ups. However, I was horrified to discover that this email was deactivated by my email provider for inactivity!

Now I am stuck in a hard place. I have no way of accessing the email I must use to verify my login. I sent an email to Neocities support, but have not heard back yet,

I have been a Neocities user and supporter for over a year. I use the site almost daily, and update my blog weekly. I have made so many friends on Neocities and have built such a nice home on the web. I would be crushed if I had to restart it all from scratch. Esp if I am unable to cancel the subscription via the old email.


Anyone have a similar problem? The whole situation is making me terribly sad :(

[lakes]

A TCP/IP update logged me out of all my accounts. While I was lucky and my email still worked, I did have to use a verification code to log back into Neocities.
BUT I'm not able to change my email address for Discord because I accidentally reset an email aliasing service I used to use.
I know verification codes are meant as a "lazy security measure." But I kinda hate them and prefer using a code from an authenticator app because it's more secure and doesn't require email. Maybe if it gets sorted out, you can try enabling two factor authentication with your preferred app.

[Rubbereon]

However, I was horrified to discover that this email was deactivated by my email provider for inactivity!

Let me guess, gmail?

Maybe protonmail they also have a dormancy policy.

Anyway, at this point I doubt you're getting back into your account unless you can somehow recreate the email address (be aware that some email providers still have your old email in their database, so it's impossible to recreate the email)

If you can't, your only option left is to contact an admin to regain access to your account, but there's no guarantee they'll honor any requests or even listen to you.