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Legacy Account Recovery

Due to the fact that we had to work with the database dump from 2013 that was available, passwords were not able to be recovered (they're hashed/encrypted) for this revival. This means that our account recovery options are limited. Saftey and security are a top priority. While we will try to get as many people back into their accounts as possible, there are a considerable number of accounts that will be unrecoverable due to these circumstances. Please respect this system and do not make any requests in bad faith.

If you made your account BEFORE September 12, 2013, 3:44 PM
1. If you have access to the email the account was registered with/had on file at this date:

Hooray! Go to the Login page and click “Forgot Password?”. Enter any email you think the account was registered with and Submit (you can do this several times if you have a few to check). You will receive an email with instructions to reset your password.

2. If you aren't sure which email was on your account, try any you can think of, then:

Send an email to admin@scarvesandcoffee.net using the following in their respective fields:

Subject: "Forgot Email: (Your username)"
Body: "Forgot email associated with account (your username)"
We will reply with the email on the account as soon as possible.

3. If you DO NOT have access to the email account:

You will have to try one of the methods below. Sorry!

If you made your account AFTER September 12, 2013, 3:44 PM
1. If you cross-posted an entry on another website around the same time as you submitted it to Scarves & Coffee, such as on LiveJournal or AO3, and have access to that account:

1. Send an email to admin@scarvesandcoffee.net with info:

Subject: "Cross-post Verification: (Your S&C username)"
Body:
"Original S&C post: (link to entry on scarvesandcoffee.net)
Cross-post: (link to duplicate entry/announcement on another site)
(Other site name) profile: (link to profile page on the website)
Email: (email address you would like added to your S&C account)"

2. Send a private message from the account on the other website to:

Message: "This is (S&C username) from scarvesandcoffee.net. I authorize the email (email address) being added to my account."
  • Live Journal: scarvesnet
  • Tumblr: scarvesnet
  • Twitter: @ScarvesNet
  • Fanfiction.net: u/15258716 (scarvesnet)
  • AO3: scarvesnet*
    • *For AO3 verification, since they don't have a messaging system, you will have to leave the message as a comment on the post (you do not have to include the email publicly in this case and you can delete the comment after confirmation).

3. We will respond to your request as soon as possible, either to confirm your request or to ask for more information.

2. If you have access to one of the other website accounts that were listed on your S&C profile, such as Twitter or Tumblr:

Note: This account must already be listed on your account and we've already taken note of closed accounts. Please check the archive.org log of your account if you would like to double-check the web scraping.

1. Send an email to admin@scarvesandcoffee.net with info:

Subject: "Other Account Verification: (Your username)"
Body:
"S&C Profile: (link to your S&C profile)
(Other site name, i.e. Twitter) profile: (link to profile page on the website)
Email: (email address you would like added to your S&C account)"

2. Send a private message from the account on the other website to:

Message: "This is (S&C username) from scarvesandcoffee.net. I authorize the email (email address) being added to my account."

Please allow a few days for us to get to your email and verify your information/reply. Formatting the email as requested will speed up the process tremendously!

If you don't have access to any of these accounts or didn't have any listed in your profile, there is no other way for us to verify that you are the rightful owner of the account and you will have to create a new one. We only have data for accounts that were in the database before September 2013 or that were archived by the Wayback Machine (about 1/5th of the remaining accounts). However, if you would like us to remove any personal, real-life identification details from your biography or links that you would rather not be public anymore, please email admin@scarvesandcoffee.net with subject “Remove Info: ” and the information you would like removed. If you think you have some other kind of definitive proof of ownership and would like to plead your case, feel free to email admin@scarvesandcoffee.net with subject “Account Recovery Case: ” and do so.

If you need any related help or clarification beyond this, email admin@scarvesandcoffee.net with the subject “Account Recovery Help: (Username)”.