Forgetting our login details is an annoying but inevitable process, which is why we made ours so simple at first — You go to the recovery page (or "Lost" page), enter your account's email address, hit "Recover Password", and we reset your password to a randomly generated one and email it to you. Easy!
However, it had the downside that if someone knew your account's email address, they could easily reset your password, and while they wouldn't know it, it would probably get pretty annoying very quickly. Another downside was that you couldn't just recover your username, you had to reset your password too.
So we're happy to say that we've improved our login details recovery system! And it's still as simple as before :)
The new system/page fixes the issues we described before as: