Greetings, does anyone know if there's anyone here on Pinside I can contact for help re: activating a new account at VPForums? I'm not getting the Account Validation email, and I even tried making an account using a completely different email address (in case the server on the first was filtering before it ever reached my account) and I'm not getting the validation email there either...

(And I can't message the administrators on VPF to find out what email address I should add to a whitelist to get a validation email, because I can't use the messaging or chatroom functions until the account is validated.)

Thanks kindly!

Is anyone here an admin at vpforums? I'm having a nightmare of a time trying to get my account validated. The validating email is not coming through; I even tried a different email address on a completely different mail server, and I'm still not getting anything...

For that matter, does anyone know from what email address the validation email would be coming? I'd like to try to add it to my mail accounts' whitelists to see if that's the issue...

Thanks all, sorry for the trouble! Had no problems getting into VPUniverse, because I just linked it to my Discord... right after I posted this latest cry for help, one validation email from VPForums finally came through, and I'm now on both (hence the drain). Thanks kindly, and apologies again!

all good! It did come through, thanks kindly!

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My controller is a ~$10 USB encoder with some buttons/microswitches from DIYRetroArcade, studded into an assemblage of cardboard boxes (half of which are from USPS.) Using PinUp Popper, with VPX and VR Launcher 4.26, it's just amazing.

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