A couple of weeks ago I changed my password as a matter of precaution and logged in and out for a few days. And then after logging in on the third day I headed over to discord to do a self promotion and posted my password because I forgot it was still in my browser.
One of the admin informed me a couple of minutes later that I should delete my post because my steemit password was there, and after looking at the post I found this to be so. So I deleted the post and immediately went to steemit to change the password again, which I did successfully and then logged out and then logged back in just to make sure it worked, which it did.
So that was that and I hadn't lost my account and I was lucky no one had taken it.
The next day I tried to sign in and couldn't. So I sent steemit a note to say my password wasn't working anymore, but they sent an automated reply back to say that they couldn't recover lost passwords.
I thought my account was lost for good.
After trying everything I could think of I tried the recovery for stolen passwords even though it said my latest password hadn't been used in the past 30 days, which it had, but hey, I was talking to a machine.
So I did that and pressed enter and sat back to wait.
Two weeks later and still no reply and I had pretty much given up hope of getting my account back.
And then in my email was a link to go and get a new password which I did and hey presto I'm back into my account.
I have no idea why the password didn't work two weeks ago; maybe it was just a glitch in the system, but at least it is possible to get your account back with patience and good luck.
I do feel that if I'd lost my password though that I wouldn't have got my account back.
As a by the by: we all know that after 7 days there is no more pay out on our posts, but did you know that you can upvote comments on the post and get paid? I didn't know this and so didn't upvote any posts older than 7 days because it would be a waste of my voting power, but now I do upvote older posts in the comments below it, which is a good way to reward the author of the post if you think it's a good post...
