2 step verification
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Do you have the google verification app on your phone ? Its the best way to get a code. If you try login the forum will send a code to your phone.
Then the forum will ask you if you wish to authorize the code for 30 days.
Then the forum will ask you if you wish to authorize the code for 30 days.
I have managed to get back on via your FB account. Seems to work now hopefully.
I had all sorts of trouble getting back into the site.
OK now, but it was a major PITA at the time.
(wtf is a Google Authenticator App?)
OK now, but it was a major PITA at the time.
(wtf is a Google Authenticator App?)
I use Microsoft Authenticator app and it works well for meI had all sorts of trouble getting back into the site.
OK now, but it was a major PITA at the time.
(wtf is a Google Authenticator App?)
I only use iPad and iPhone and some of yhe Authy apps were wanting a paid subscription I eventually found one that got me back for free. It was a right faff tbh
The Microsoft app is free and works on IOS. I have been using for a couple of years now.
Not again! 
This is getting silly.
This is getting silly.
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I dont have any issues.. but...
Where i work we are not allowed our mobile phones.
We have very limited inet access but luckly i can get onto DW.
So i have to email or write the back up codes down so i can login at work.
Nothing major but i dont think its totaly necessary for a forum.
Where i work we are not allowed our mobile phones.
We have very limited inet access but luckly i can get onto DW.
So i have to email or write the back up codes down so i can login at work.
Nothing major but i dont think its totaly necessary for a forum.
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If it is or not is possibly beside the point because 2step verification is here and growing across the web, especially as it is now recommended for basically every online platform by the security experts, so all this is doing really is getting you used to it and giving you a chance to find out how it works by having it here on the forum so the next time you signup somewhere that needs it you will know all about it and be able to set it up easily (I always use the FreeOTP app its on android and iOS and its simple and easy and I love it
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I know what 2 step verification is, it's not relatively new.If it is or not is possibly beside the point because 2step verification is here and growing across the web, especially as it is now recommended for basically every online platform by the security experts, so all this is doing really is getting you used to it and giving you a chance to find out how it works by having it here on the forum so the next time you signup somewhere that needs it you will know all about it and be able to set it up easily (I always use the FreeOTP app its on android and iOS and its simple and easy and I love it
I use it alot.. banking apps, secure payments etc...i dont need to get use to it.
I just think its overkill for a forum.
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It's just taken me about ten minutes to log in as I forgot that I had had to download a Google authenticator instead of my usual Microsoft one and I didn't recognise the icon on my phone, as this is the only site I have to use it on.
I thought such apps were only really a necessity for things where there would be possibility of financial fraudulent activity, such as banking and online purchases.
I thought such apps were only really a necessity for things where there would be possibility of financial fraudulent activity, such as banking and online purchases.
Easy for me , I used Authy
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