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Larion Studios forum stores your passwords in unhashed plaintext. Don't use a password there that you've used anywhere else.
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this post was submitted on 28 Sep 2023
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no, they probably dont.
they just send it to your email upon registration, which is kinda a bad idea, but they are probably storing passwords hashed afterwards.
But that still means they had your plaintext password at some point.
Edit: which, as some replies suggest, may not actually be much of an issue.
I'm still skeptical about them returning it, however.
hashing on client side is considered a bad idea and almost never done.
you actually send your password "in plain text" every time you sign up.
Really everytime you log in too.
It's not a bad idea and it is often done, just not in a browser/webapp context.
Can you give an example where this is done?
Sorry, I should have included an example in my comment to clarify, but I was in a rush.
HMAC is a widely used technique relies on hashing of a shared secret for verifying authenticity and integrity of a message, for example.