I get a fair number of "forgot password" emails where the person is actually trying to log in with the wrong username. Normally, a login system shouldn't display whether the username or password was the incorrect part, but since it's already public information which usernames exist on Tildes (simply by visiting /user/<username>), this really isn't meaningfully hiding anything. It would only have any effect on the most absolutely naive attackers. I think it's an acceptable trade-off to help out people that are inadvertently trying to log in with the wrong username instead.
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