User journey through hell: 20 ways to lose access to your account

• your child plays with your phone and everyone is locked out of everything
• your chosen OAuth provider's server is down
• your former co-founder has changed the password and they are the only person with the details
• you lose access to the phone you use for 2FA
• you're in a different country to the phone you use for 2FA
• you lose access to the account email
• your abusive ?? has access to the account email
• your abusive ?? has changed the account email
• your abusive ?? has changed the account password
• you don't have account recovery questions
• you've forgotten the answers to the account recovery questions
• you haven't added an alternate email address
• there isn't an option to add an alternate email address
• you haven't added a connecting phone number
• there isn't an option to add a connecting phone number for account recovery purposes
• the auth code generator is too fast and by the time you're ready to copy it over it's changed again
• you ran out of attempts for the day
• a hacker changed your account details
• you need to use your legal name to use the account and you can't use your legal name for safety reasons
• your card is stuck in a malfunctioning ATM machine and you don't have access to the internet
• your card is stuck in a malfunctioning ATM machine and you don't have access to your phone as it is dead

Comments

[Peter Vivo]

Briliant!

[ashleygraf_]

Thank you!