Verifying your Rentry URL
This guide is to help people regain access to their URLs if they have forgotten the edit codes.
Preparation
Set a method of verification within the metadata of your page. You may either use SECRET_VERIFY or SECRET_EMAIL_ADDRESS. There are two important things to note about SECRET metadata: they cannot be viewed once posted and they cannot be set, changed or removed with a modify code.
SECRET_EMAIL_ADDRESS
This is the recommended method. However if there is a chance that you will lose access to your email account, you should set both this and SECRET_VERIFY.
Add your email to this Option and we will be able to use it to check that you are the owner. In the near future, you will also be able to reset your edit code using a form, for an instant reset.
Example: SECRET_EMAIL_ADDRESS = [email protected]
SECRET_VERIFY
Add instructions in this Option's Value for us to use to verify you as the owner. This can be an account on a social platform, or anything else that we might be able to use.
Example: SECRET_VERIFY = Twitter: @handle / spotify: https://spotify.com/accountname
Be mindful about the future - if you ever change your handle on the service you link, someone else might be able to register your own handle and use this to steal your URL. We recommend listing only handles that you are unlikely to ever change (or make a fresh one just for this purpose).
Recovery
Please follow these steps:
For SECRET_VERIFY:
- Select a handle and service that you have mentioned in your verify comment.
- Tell us which one you have chosen. Let us know if it is something you can edit or an email.
If you have chosen something you can edit:
- We will give you a randomised code, like this: *nfni3avh
- Edit this code into the page your comment links to.
- Let us know and we will validate it.
If you chose an email or for SECRET_EMAIL_ADDRESS:
- Email us from the account mentioned.
Note that links to Rentry pages cannot be used to verify, as this was open to abuse through the claim system.
If your page has a verify comment as was previously recommended, we will continue to support this. Please follow the recovery guide above for SECRET_VERIFY. We now recommend not using the comment system as it is susceptible to modify code -> edit code reset request attacks.
Notes on Evidence
Screenshots are not permitted as evidence, as they are too easily faked.
We may use your IP as evidence of ownership, however this requires that there are no signs of a trade.
Showing that you are the most recent claimer may allow us to verify you, but only if there are no signs of a trade.
Notes on Modify Codes
In order to prevent people with your modify code stealing your URL through verification, we have the following internal rules:
- The latest edit must not be a modify.