The best thing about Hive, is if you created your account before the event of the creation of the Hive blockchain, your old Steemit credentials will work. However, you should set your recovery account to something other than "steemit."
Imagine a scenario where someone else gets your private keys and changes your keys. In this scenario you are locked out of your own account. There is a way out, but only if you have set your recovery account.
The recovery account is a Hive different account. It should be someone can verify that the real you has lost her account and needs to recovery it. You will be able to allow recovery with your old private owner key (or master password). I have not written about this.
I did try to change my recovery account and tried shepz1 as he created it for me but computer said no. So are you saying if I put my steemit name and password in here it will work? Cool. I'll try it.
I don't know where you're trying to set your recovery account, but setting that requires either your master password or owner private key. I did it once, but I nothing of my bookmarks looks like that except for https://hivetasks.com/ . It seems like it does everything. I don't know how to make it set a recovery account though.
oh whenever I log in on PeakD it asks me to reset my recovery account so have only tried there. I wouldn't know how otherwise or even that it existed.
Thank you. I think if you go to the peakd page for that there are two links. Remember to use the owner private key or master password for this. The recovery account for your account 'active-truth' is set as steem. So I guess you have had active-truth from the steemit days as well.
I guess your concern is whether accounts from Steem expire for use in Hive if you never use them. This is not the case in anything I have ever read.
No this account was given to me by shepz1, he made the name. I'd prefer to be under my own name I use everywhere (northerntracey). So the recovery account was set up by shepz1 originally. So I don't have any other accounts on here to use as recovery unless I can use my old steem account.
Have you tried logingin with your old Steemit credentials?
No not yet, am a bit busy, will try it soon