Not cool to include the forum password in the activation email.

Lo priority, but annoying. Please fix.

Thanks,
Giacomo

The forum software isn't a custom Linode creation... Note the "Powered by phpBB" at the bottom.

I noticed it too - luckily I don't re-use any super-secret password for an online forum.

Fairly old version of phpBB from the looks of it - maybe a future update would remove it?

Since you log into the forum via a regular http connection, what difference does it make?

It is after all, just a community forum account.

I'm not sure either, I check my mail through IMAPS. I'd be more worried about the fact this is HTTP than my mail client compromising my password.

You can run forum via HTTPS.

That doesn't change the fact that the password is emailed in cleartext.

Exactly. This is pretty standard for forums. If you made your forum password the same as your linode manager password, then maybe you ought to change one...

/agree

I am using IPB (Invision Power Board). It does not send the password through email.

There's a whole flamewar brewing between phpbb, IPS, SMS, and vBulletin in this thread...

I'd say... if it concerns you to the point you want to bring it up to the staff (and not the community), file a ticket.

Well, there's one thing I personally loathe about phpBB - it marks all posts as read when you log out. Combine that with its tendency to sometimes log me in and back out after filling user credentials... and you have the need to browse through the threads by date, because everything is marked as read. >.<
SMF all the way. Code isn't the best out there, but it's way more comfortable to use, and relatively easy to extend.

This is only with older versions of phpBB (< 3.0.0). PhpBB3 supports saving information about read/unread posts in database.

If you'd prefer it's a pretty easy hack to have it email you the MD5 hash instead. In a PGP signed email with your email address encrypted SHA1. It'll never reach you, but then again, it'll never reach anybody else either!

Come to think of it, when I bought my car, the dealer handed me my keys in plain sight... I'm going to have a talk with him.