Yea my bad there - fwiw I added a hot patch to the frontend to accept hackernews as a valid "email" since I couldn't update the parent comment. It should work now, but [email protected] was the email used.

Ah, the beautiful advantages of being a lone dev on a hobby project - live updates to the production code!

And I only brought prod down for 15s or so when I missed a bracket in the production server frontend package I was editing in vim! I call that a success.