Account unlinked after trying to add Google account as auth?

Question

This is my Stack Overflow account: https://stackoverflow.com/users/519348/tzhx

Until just now, it was linked to my other Stack Exchange accounts.

I wanted to add Google authentication as an additional, because it had just been based on Steam's openid up to now (well, after myopenid disappeared)

Something's gone wrong though. When I try and log in with that Google account now it says it wants to create a new account, and it seems to have removed Steam auth from that site as well (logging in via Steam also prompts a "confirm and create new account" page)

I've tried in new incognito windows, etc.

I am an idiot. Can anyone help me?

Answer 1

Give it a go now, should be all set.

The short version of what went wrong here is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

The long version is that you did have two network accounts. When someone attempts to log in or add a credential, we try to look up whether another account exists with the same credential and merge them behind the scenes if so. In your case, we detected this exact situation, but at some point in the past something went out of sync somewhere and your SO profile had one account ID set while a table in the database we use to track network-wide stuff had a different account ID. Cue an exception in our logs and a really weird experience for you. Sorry about that.

I merged the two accounts, so everything should be in the right place now, but you might want to review the login credentials on your account (from your profile, "Edit Profile & Settings", then "My Logins") and remove the ones you no longer wish to have associated with your profile.

Lemme know if anything's still wonky.