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[u/handrmolja]

Hello - I just want to vent somewhere to say FUCK TORBOX.

For context, I'm going on vacation in a couple of hours so I thought I'd hit download on a few movies/series and go to sleep.

At first, I missed the email/pw combo twice or thrice because I forgot I used Google to sign-in. Even though I managed to sign in with google then and saw the "You are now linked with Google." message it still failed and displayed a "5 per 1 hour" message.

First of all - I thought the timeout is no issue at all because I'll just use my wifes laptop. But guess what - I'm timed out on ALL devices!!!

Second of all - Would it kill you guys to add one or two more words explaining the timeout/error??
For example "5 Sign-in attempts per 1 hour" would be clearer.

Third of all - I went on Torbox's discord looking for help in the "Support" channel (quotation marks are doing the heavy lifting here) there's a link that should redirect me to their bot or whatever. BUT THE LINK OPENS A BLANK PAGE on both my laptop and my mobile device.

Fourth of all - WHY IS THE TIMEOUT PLACED ON ALL DEVICES

A large F YOU to the torbox team. Rant over.

Even though I experienced frequent outages with Torbox after switching from RD I was never frustrated with the service up until this boiling point.

[u/wheezycunt]

Skill issue, not torbox

[u/trigodo]

Maybe this will teach you to use password manager

[u/handrmolja → u/trigodo]

I don’t see how this applies here with a google sign in where torbox requires me to click on the google icon and sign in. (I was alread signed in to my google account on the web browser)

[u/stankbucket]

Fourth of all - WHY IS THE TIMEOUT PLACED ON ALL DEVICES

Because somebody trying to brute force their way in is going to look like they are coming from multiple devices.

[u/handrmolja → u/[deleted]]

I’ve faced timeouts before but 1 hour is ridiculous

[u/hunglao → u/handrmolja]

I've had websites completely lock me out, requiring a support ticket to resolve, for 5 failed logins. granted, they were government service-related (healthcare.gov, I'm looking at you), but they exist.

[u/stankbucket → u/handrmolja]

You're right. It should be 4.

[u/Spliffman1]

Key part of that whole post "I forgot..", it's on you, case closed... NEXT

[u/handrmolja → u/Spliffman1]

Thanks for your expert analysis detective Ignorant.

You never made any mistakes or forgot something while half asleep?

Anyway I get the timeout and the user error but the 1 hour cooldown can fuck right off.

[u/Hostee]

This is why it's good practice to use an email alias like simplelogin.io and create new accounts with every service you sign up with and never use google as a sign-in method. Then all you need is a good password manager like Bitwarden.