Questions tagged [login]
For questions or issues surrounding login to Stack Exchange sites.
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How to link my stackexchange account to askubuntu? [closed]
My general stack exchange account is directly linked to SE, I'm not logging in via google or facebook or any of those. The associated email account is hosted on my personal domain.
I wanted to ask a ...
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I can't seem to log onto other sites without signing-in [duplicate]
A while back, I went from Game Development to Arqade, and I didn't need to sign-in to log into Arqade, but now that I'm starting to go to Server Fault, I need to sign-in. Why didn't it ask me to sign-...
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Login issue for Mathematics SE [duplicate]
I've a strange issue with my Mathematics SE profile.
Access to all sites (Mathematics, Philosophy, HSM) works well on the mobile.
Access to Philosophy and HSM is fine on my desktop with Google browser ...
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Does an auto-login tool violate SE rules/policy? [duplicate]
I created a tool that can automatically log in to all the Stack Exchange sites that you're in and go to your user profile. This is so you can keep your consecutive visited days going. You put your ...
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Will I have to accept (or reject) cookies every single time I visit StackExchange forever?
I'm not sure why if I am logged in, the stackexchange websites will not remember what my cookies preference is and never ask me again.
I am at this point of exhaustion with digital technology, that I ...
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"Join Site X" sign-up modal is not idempotent when opened via "Add a comment"
This is a very low priority UI bug I discovered accidentally.
To reproduce:
Visit a site where you are not logged in.
Open any question, click "Add a comment" button below the question or ...
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Google login popup covers login area on mobile
I recently had to change my password, which led me to log into the site on mobile, which I haven’t had to do in a while. I noticed that the “Sign in with Google” completely covers the regular login ...
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"Warning" icon overlapping other on sign-in page upon inputting wrong credentials
When inputting wrong password and correct email in the Login page, I get a "warning" icon overlapping the show/hide password icon:
When inputting incorrect email, though, it doesn't overlap:...
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Getting logged out on Stack Overflow regularly
I use SO daily (indeed hourly during business hours)
I visit a few other SE sites occasionally (eg aviation, space etc)
Since about, say, 3-4 weeks ago, I am logged out often as much as a few times ...
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"Sign in with Google" banner shows up even if one is signed in on the network but hasn't joined the site, and incorrectly in Firefox private mode
Right now when I visit any site that I don't have a profile on, I see the following:
This happens
on every site I don't have a profile even when I'm logged into my SE account
in private browsing ...
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Every SE site that I don't have an account for started prompting me for Google login
This started today (5 jun 2024) or yesterday. Example:
Is this initiated by Google or by SE?
In the latter case, how can I disable this?
========= Follow up =========
From the answers/comments so far ...
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math : "log in" button does not work
I try to login to "https://math.stackexchange.com/" with my email and password, but the "Log in" button just redirects me to the main page of math.stackexchange not logged.
I can ...
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Regressed Issue: some Stack Exchange sites that are not registered by me but shown in “my community” and can be accessed by me
I know this thing has happened to me before, see Why are there some Stack Exchange sites that are not registered by me, but shown in “my community” and can be accessed by me?.
See my Stack Exchange ...
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Trouble logging in: "No user found with matching email" [closed]
I have two Google accounts, but I am only logged in Stack Exchange in one account. I lost my password, so I had to recover it. I updated my email address before, but it still says, "No user found ...
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GIS Stack Exchange - Login Unavailable (29 / 30 April 2024) [closed]
I have been trying to access the GIS Stack Exchange since yesterday 29 April 2024. When clicking the "Login" icon, I am directed to a page where I am told that Logging in is not available. ...
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If I accept all cookies, why is it not saved that I have accepted all cookies?
Every single time I go to a stack exchange website, I am prompted to accept cookies.
Why does this decision not get stored in a cookie? Why do you have to ask me every single time, and no matter what ...
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Why am I getting the Sign in as popup in Stack Overflow and doing nothing?
I am getting frustrated with two issues with the Stack Overflow website.
It continuously asked me to sign in with Google even though I was already logged in.
If I try to click on the sign, it then it ...
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Can't sign in, error message: fields are empty
When attempting to access Stack Overflow, I encounter warnings indicating that the username and password fields appear blank, despite being populated. The issue appears to stem from duplicate inputs ...
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"Oops! Something Bad Happened!" error when joining communities, what can I do?
What can I do when I repeatedly over a long time get the
"Oops! Something Bad Happened!" error when trying to join a community?
(I tried either Law and law.meta and both gave the same error. ...
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Login failure using Google password keychain on Android
I use a Google account as a keychain for all my passwords. Until now, I was able to log into the Electrical Engineering Stack Exchange site on both my MacBook Air and my Android phone using this ...
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Area 51 login/signup links broken again
The login/signup links redirect to:
https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/login?returnurl=https%3a%2f%2farea51.stackexchange.com%2fusers%2flogin-or-signup%2fdelegated%3freturnurl%3dhttps%253a%252f%...
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Can't chat in MSE chat [duplicate]
I can't chat on chat.meta.stackexchange.com. Sometimes it shows this page:
When looking into console, it shows 500 status code error:
And sometimes I am simply not logged in chat (however on MSE I ...
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Can't register: "No user found with matching email"
I wanted to create a sock puppet account this morning, but it just seems impossible.
I receive the emails after the initial registration just fine, and when I click the link, I get to a page with a ...
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Sporadic login/logout issues after February 24 maintenance
Since at least 2 hours ago (7:00PM (EST) on Saturday, February 24, 2024) and about 6 hours past the time today’s maintenance was declared “COMPLETED” by staff member Dalmarus I have experienced login ...
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Logging into Stack Exchange doesn't log me into my existing Stack Overflow account, it keeps asking me to create a new account even though I have one?
From long ago I have a Stack Exchange account with two site accounts: One for Stack Overflow and one for Software Engineering. Recently, after not using any of these accounts for years, I got a ...
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"An error occurred with log in."
(N.B., this is not affecting me, who uses Google auth., but has been reported by multiple people within the Meta Discussion discord).
Upon trying to log in, the error:
An error occurred with log in.
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Will you reconsider adding 2FA? For example, FIDO2 or TOTP codes?
I'm actually shocked to find that such a large site does not have 2FA. I saw mention of telling people to just rely on the 2FA of other sites such as Google or GitHub when signing in, but that short-...
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Transifex missing a string about incorrect e-mail
When I try to login in ruSO but put in an incorrect e-mail address, I get the string "No user found with matching email", untranslated. I wrote a bug-report in ruSO meta, but a moderator ...
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Log in using MFA? [duplicate]
Is there a way to add 2FA or MFA to my existing Stack Exchange login, or I do have to add a GitHub, Google, etc. login?
I tried searching the help and looking around the settings, but I couldn't see ...
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How to change account login email [duplicate]
I'm trying to make a change to my Stack Exchange account's login email but it seemed to fail.
I did update the email address from my “profile” and validated the new email address via the confirmation ...
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How do I change the email I use to log in to Stack Exchange? [duplicate]
I want to change my Stack Exchange account email, because I cannot log in to that email. I rarely use that email, which was only used for registering with Stack Exchange in the very early days.
After ...
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Accounts and logins of the Stack Exchange sites family [duplicate]
I have an account on Stack Overflow, for the past many years. Over the time I used other Stack Exchange sites as well, like TeX - LaTeX, Unix & Linux and Artificial Intelligence.
Yesterday I ...
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Cannot log in to Area 51 (so cannot ask this in its Discussion Zone)
I have an Area 51 account1:
But I cannot log in:
The option to sign up does not work either:
The option to join this community starts off okay and picks up my email (which I have not screen-shot) ...
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Preserve entered values on traducir after login
Reminder: We’re moving Traducir to our internal infrastructure
Occasionally, I lose my login session on traducir.win and have to login again. This is not a complicated task, but it's hard to notice ...
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I still have to use my old e-mail address to sign-in, despite my new e-mail address showing up in "Your logins" page [duplicate]
Whenever I try to log-in using my new e-mail address (that is listed in "Your logins" page), I get "No user found with matching email" message.
Update: I have solved the issue on ...
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Can't join Area 51 discussions
I want to join the Area 51 (Stack Exchange site) Discussion Zone community. But when I click the "join this community", the page displays a message:
Completing log in to Area 51.
You will ...
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Why do I have to reset my password every single time I log in? (It says my password is wrong.)
Every time I try to log in it says the password is wrong, so my only choice is to reset it.
I'm using my e-mail address and password, not an OAuth provider.
Why do I have to reset my password every ...
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Why can't I log in with new/added e-mail address? (It's listed under "Other" on My Logins page)
I updated my e-mail address at stats.stackexchange.com. I verified it by clicking on the link in the e-mail I received. My new e-mail address was added under "Other" on the My Logins page.
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Why is Super User asking me to sign up? This does not happen for other Stack Exchange sites [duplicate]
I can see my account and my Q&A history for Super User, but when I try to ask a new question, I am asked to sign up:
I don't see this issue with any other Stack Exchange site. What is going on?
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Network login failing [duplicate]
I am unable to log in, for example, to Super User. Using the latest Firefox on Windows 10, I already tried disabling addons like NoScript and uBlock Origin. After clicking on Login on Super User, it ...
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Is the email address under "Edit email settings" different than the email address under "Your logins"?
Stack Exchange's login system is confusing me terribly.
I just want to change my account's email address; the one I use to log in to sites like Stack Overflow.
When I go to My Profile -> Settings, ...
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Why can't I sign up for some Stack Exchange sites using GitHub? [duplicate]
Why are some of the communities not compatible with GitHub? How do I make sure I'm using the same account when creating new accounts if they don't have the GitHub option?
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Various logins don't work across SE sites, and can only log in from one single device
I have an account I've been using for over ten years, and it seems something has changed, perhaps more than once, in that period relating to how to log into the site.
I seem to have several login ...
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Can't confirm new account when joining another site
I'm trying to have my sockpuppet join a new site, but whatever browser I use (in a private window, so cookies won't matter), I'm greeted with "Oops! Something Bad Happened!". It does not ...
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Is there a unified portal/dashboard to update/change user account details and login credentials for all Stack Exchange sites?
I have searched across portals and multiple pages Google search results, but I couldn't find any definitive way to update my account details uniformly for all the Stack Exchange sites.
Heck, there ...
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How do I permanently set my cookie preferences?
I visit Stack Overflow on my phone several times a week, and it seems like about once a week (maybe more?) I get this cookie banner.
I make my selections, and expect the site to remember them. A week ...
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Sign up button on Talent redirects to home page [closed]
I am on Stack Overflow Talent, and I have two questions.
I tried to log in first, and it took me to the login page, but it seemed I am not a registered user, so then I tried to click on the Sign-up ...
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I keep getting logged out of Stack Overflow
This has been reported quite a few times over the years, both with Chrome and Firefox (and maybe others, I did not read all the comments).
Since it is driving me crazy (but it's not like there is an ...
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Session cookies seem to get lost
Starting around 1st of February, I get suddenly logged out from Stack Overflow or other Stack Exchange sites. I observed this effect in the following contexts:
(1) I switch to a browser tab where I ...
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Can't log in to my Stack Overflow account [duplicate]
I created another Stack Overflow account for another community that was not related to my main account, but I mistakenly added a GitHub login method with the mail from my main account. After that, my ...
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