HN create account removed from login page

pg (or possibly another admin these days) will remove the create-account functionality if HN suddenly becomes very popular, as with the LinkedIn thread. I'm trying to find one of his comments where he mentions this, but there are 8,511 to wade through, and the obvious searches haven't found it yet.<p>edit: I may have misremembered; the first reference I've found was <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3481174" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3481174</a>, but I'm still looking.<p>edit: Gave up looking. I probably don't know what I'm talking about.

Yeah, but if you try to comment on something, it will prompt you to create an account.<p>Go ahead an log out of your account and try to comment on this link.

Also, OpenID has been removed. How do I login with my Google account?

That is one fancy log in page...not even a "forgot password" link.

Perhaps related....<p>The past few days I've gotten <i>several</i> emails from 'info@ycombinator.com' telling me that I have a new password. (I received several new passwords in the past few days.)<p>The header seems to indicate that the message was actually sent from news.ycombinator.com.<p>Are these legit? Why am I receiving them? Has anyone else got one?<p>I've ignored them for now.

I have been a tad out of the loop. Can someone clue me as to what LinkedIn thingy is being referred to?<p>Thanks.

you can still create new account when submitting new content (while being logged off)

HN Search is broken too, or stopped updating circa 5 days ago…<p>…makes the site _much_ less useful for me, I must confess.

countdown to people selling HN invites like it's a damn torrent tracker &#60;/joke&#62;<p>hopefully this maintenence takes care of the issue of the login page being unstyled. i always thought it was supposed to go in a popup on the same page, that would make sense given its unstyled markup.

Noticed this today and assumed it was my local settings. Not that HN need to consult or communicate to users but was this announced?<p>I suspect you can still sign up but via another screen?

This could just be maintenance. I can't imagine its good for YC's business model to shut down sign ups.