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I know that this question has been asked before, but today when I logged into StackOverflow all my profile was gone: questions, reputation, profile data, everything! Can someone give me a hand on this?

It only happened to me in StackOverflow AFAIK, since here in Meta I still have all my data.

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    Your account is still here: stackoverflow.com/users/270293/oscar-carballal
    – Mysticial
    Commented Dec 5, 2013 at 18:06
  • not really, when I login I get this profile: i.imgur.com/w5PZsQP.png
    – CastleDweller
    Commented Dec 5, 2013 at 18:08
  • Sounds like you have your sign-ins borked.
    – Mysticial
    Commented Dec 5, 2013 at 18:08
  • @Mysticial sorry for the question, what do you mean by borked?
    – CastleDweller
    Commented Dec 5, 2013 at 18:09
  • Well, I think you simply need the accounts merged, which can be asked for, I think it's somewhere in the help center. Any chance that you changed your openID recently?
    – yo'
    Commented Dec 5, 2013 at 18:10
  • @tohecz nope, I didn't change my OpenID, but I haven't logged in since three months ago, I don't know if that can affect in any way
    – CastleDweller
    Commented Dec 5, 2013 at 18:11
  • @OscarCarballal: It looks like you registered a new account today. Did you?
    – Amal Murali
    Commented Dec 5, 2013 at 18:11
  • @AmalMurali not at all, I just logged in from MyOpenID as usual, and it redirected me to a new profile in SO, instead of the usual profile
    – CastleDweller
    Commented Dec 5, 2013 at 18:12
  • I'm confused - you posted this from the account you can't see?
    – Flexo - Save the data dump Mod
    Commented Dec 5, 2013 at 18:17
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    @Flexo Yes, my account isn't accesible in SO, but in Meta it's working perfectly.
    – CastleDweller
    Commented Dec 5, 2013 at 18:18
  • On SO at least the two accounts have very different openids associated.
    – Flexo - Save the data dump Mod
    Commented Dec 5, 2013 at 18:20
  • Both should be pizte.myopenid.com, that's the only openid account I have
    – CastleDweller
    Commented Dec 5, 2013 at 18:22
  • It isn't showing that to me on anything but the 1 Rep account. And the Meta account is showing the same as the main one. I'd take a look at the settings on your Meta account, log out on main and then try logging back in with the provider you see on your Meta account currently.
    – Flexo - Save the data dump Mod
    Commented Dec 5, 2013 at 18:22
  • Strange, my meta account shows google as provider, and when I log in in SO with google it works fine. I'm wondering how the hell did it change from myopenid to google. Any ideas?
    – CastleDweller
    Commented Dec 5, 2013 at 18:25
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    There's no add openid event in your history for anything but the older one. There's a login event on the 20th from your email providers openid. It's the same as the email set in your email field, so I think (but I'm guessing) that because your email provider's openid is seen as authoritative for that address it might have been sufficient to authorize you for the whole account. Surprised that it seems to have usurped the other openid though. (I could be misreading the log though)
    – Flexo - Save the data dump Mod
    Commented Dec 5, 2013 at 18:34

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Once upon a time, you used MyOpenID to log in on Stack Overflow. But back in August, you removed that credential from your account, adding instead a Google account and relying on that to authenticate you.

Then, today, you tried to log in with your MyOpenID credentials again. Since those were no longer associated with your account, a new account was created.

I've merged these accounts. You can now access the same account using either Google or MyOpenID.

However, MyOpenID is going away in February, so... Don't count on that working for too much longer.

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