Comments on: OTN Forums Developers Heard My Voice

By: Alex Gorbachev

Alex Gorbachev — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:46:42 +0000

There is a new way to change you email id and login name for oracle.com account but it’s deep into Help & FAQ section. I did that and immediately lost my OTN membership and associated posts as well as integration with Oracle Mix. Mix recovered my profile but OTN Forum is now brand new. Oh well.

By: Uwe M. Kuechler

Uwe M. Kuechler — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 14:39:45 +0000

Oh, great, thanks for the hint! I’ve been e-mailing with OTN support about this like h*ll, and finally… nothing happened. :(
It must have happened during the one of the last upgrades when they confused my screen name with my email address and never changed that flaw since then. This resulted in no thread notification, no password reminders, no communication.
Looks like I’ll become more active on OTN, again.
Regards, Uwe

By: Alex Gorbachev

Alex Gorbachev — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 01:49:20 +0000

Thanks for details Gints. Interesting statistics indeed.

Sorry for delay in the comments — anti-spam plug-in definitely needs an upgrade as few people complained in recent weeks that comments don’t go through sometimes (even me!).
If that ever happens – contact me or other bloggers here and we have a look right away!

By: OraTransplant » Log Buffer #51: a Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs

OraTransplant » Log Buffer #51: a Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 16:00:54 +0000

[...] Frank van Bortel blogs about a whole bunch Firefox plugins for Oracle users. Alex Gorbachev from the Pythian Group finally got his voice heard on being able to change your OTN email address. [...]

By: Gints Plivna

Gints Plivna — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 05:59:48 +0000

I blogged about that as well 15 days later than you in my blog collecting stats for last ~500 or so threads. About 10% of thrads and 25% messages were about this very topic.

Our friend Justin even commented it.

In the thread you mentioned there were rumors about some possible reasons, but if I remember correctly it wasn’t PK rather some stupid design decision. BTW now this thread is gone, obviously OTN doesn’t want to leave behind dirty traces :)

By: Don Seiler

Don Seiler — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:07:07 +0000

FINALLY! Although I’m not sure what a “login email” is, since I just login with a username. Perhaps it’s the login they use if you forgot your password or something.

Still very silly that it was a problem for this long.

By: Gints Plivna

Gints Plivna — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:25:48 +0000

I blogged about that as well 15 days later than you here
http://gplivna.blogspot.com/2007/01/five-million-and-counting-what_30.html

Our friend Justin even commented it.
After that I wrote my victory song http://gplivna.blogspot.com/2007/04/statistics-is-power.html but of course it was our common song :))))

By: Marco Gralike

Marco Gralike — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:08:24 +0000

Yoohoo !!!

Thx Alex for the tip

;-)