Puzzlebrains

I'm looking in User Control Panel and can't see anything! But then I am ill (which is a useful excuse for a lot of things!!!).

Good point. At the moment you can't change your password there. This is a hangover from when we had a combined site and the same login and password would work for both sites, which we don't use at the moment.

However - and this is a big however, although it hasn't been formally announced yet! - we are going to return to that system in the very near future (not the very next issue but probably the one after that.)

So if you can wait for another few weeks, then the facility to change your password (and your contact details, like your email address) will be restored.

Thanks. I only wanted to change it because I couldn't log in, so requested a new password. Of course the automatic ones aren't memorable!

I'll keep the email handy so I can cut and paste it until you let us know of further developments.

Following on from the above!!

Can I change my password? And if I do will it automatically change on the dotcom site at the same time without me changing it there?

In the User Control Panel here, you should be able to select "Profile - Edit Account Settings" and change your password there (this does, however, involve entering your current password and I'm not sure that "saved" passwords work there.)

But no, the two sites are definitely separate. I did explore the possibility of linking files but it got too complicated too quickly. So if you want to change your password, you have to do it on both sites. On the other hand, the other site doesn't require you to remember your old password, just the email address you used to register with.

OK, thanks.

I have changed the password on here but can't see where to change it on the dotcom site

Ah. You can't do it when you are logged in! You have to log out, and choose the option "forgotten password"... (I think I hadn't considered the possibility that people might just want to change their password!)

Sorry to be awkward!

I have used the same password for the whole time and it is one I have used elsewhere and one of those places was hacked a few years ago. I changed the password there and just recently decided I should maybe change it in the other couple of sites where I still use it!

My problem will probably be to remember I have changed it here!