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SeanDav on June 3, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: “Accounts merged and now my files are gone”

Here is a thought - why don't they use the email address and password to distinguish between users....

jonknee on June 3, 2013 [–]

They do... The problem is a possibly confusing UI for multiple sign-ins (distinct email addresses and passwords). Most sites don't have this as a feature so there's not a standard UI for it [yet].

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