Questions tagged [login]
For questions or issues surrounding login to Stack Exchange sites.
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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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Can't register for Area 51, nor use my existing SE account (doesn't match any existing meta.SE question I can find)
I just clicked to follow a proposal on Area 51, and then confirmed my email (the usual one I use for Stack Exchange), and then refreshed my area51.SE tab. I expected that somewhere along the line here,...
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Why cannot I join any Stack Exchange community as for now? [duplicate]
https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/
I tried to join this astronomy community using the button on the top right. However, it tells me that "You cannot register at this time.
If you continue to ...
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Cannot cancel out of account creation from Winter Bash "Log in or Sign up" link
At the top of the Winter Bash 2022 page there's a link to "Log in or Sign up". I don't have an SO account, so if I click on it I'm prompted to create one, linked to my SE profile. Clicking ...
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Impossible to reconnect with another Google account [duplicate]
I wanted to connect to a Stack Exchange site, but by mistake I chose my Google account from work.
I noticed it on the page that asks me to create my profile.
I clicked on Cancel to go back and use the ...
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Closed Area 51 proposals show more to anonymous users than when logged in [closed]
This is what the What If proposal looks like when logged in:
That's fine, I can live with that.
However, this is when not logged in:
Same page, same browser (Firefox 107 x64). One in a normal window,...
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Error returned when trying to login to Stack Overflow Teams after adding another login [closed]
I was successfully logged in to our new company Stack Overflow Teams account using email + password. I then (foolishly) attempted to attach another login using GitHub, thinking I could have my ...
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Ask Question > Create new account? > Cancel > Cancel > Cancel > …
Apparently, this bug was reported before here and here and it was supposedly fixed, so it's either a regression or it was just partially fixed (see below).
The bug happens when clicking the "Ask ...
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Can't log in to other communities. Only on SO (GitHub account) [duplicate]
I'm able to log in with a GitHub account on SO (Stack Overflow). When I go to other communities I see this:
When I try to log in, I don't see an option to use GitHub:
I think this is a bug, because ...
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Stack Overflow doesn't render some pages in Chrome with my Google profile
I have a Stack Overflow account linked to my Google profile. I have had difficulty loading many pages over the last month or perhaps longer.
For example, this SO page.
Some pages render fine, but ...
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Can Google and Cloudflare find my SE password?
We are using Firefox with the NoScript extension on GNU/Linux, mainly for security reasons.
When we go to the login page of a Stack Exchange site, say https://mathoverflow.net, the NoScript extension ...
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Why is my new account on an SE site only sort of attached? [duplicate]
I started a new biology SE account and used my Google information to log in. Now, I haven't used any SE site in perhaps two years, so I wouldn't be surprised if my old account from a deactivated email ...
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Is it possible to lose access to one of the Stack network's sites' memberships, while membership to other networks site's is still valid?
First, sorry that I do not know what is the correct word to use instead of membership.
What I mean by that word, is I joined the site and I could easily access my profile on that site by switching ...
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My tablet does not log into my Aviation Stack Exchange account [duplicate]
I have been a member of Aviation Stack Exchange for 4 years, using the same account. Recently I joined Chemistry Stack Exchange and now my tablet does not open my Aviation Stack Exchange, or Space ...
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Error on sign in to traducir.win
We use traducir.win to translate text for the international Stack Exchange sites, so they get properly localized.
I just tried to sign in to the Russian traducir.win and got the following error:
The ...
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Entering some Stack Overflow pages, I am having a bad user experience (Corporate Network User)
Entering some Stack Overflow pages, I am having a bad user experience.
It happens that when entering the main pages where the questions are displayed, it usually takes me a long time to fully load the ...
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Can't login to SEDE - "StackApps authentication failed"
When I try to login to the Stack Exchange Data Explorer using Stack Overflow, it fails with the following error message:
StackApps authentication failed
I've tried several browsers, and even in ...
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Can't login to some sites after changing password
My password was remembered by a browser and I forgot to save it somewhere else too.
After accidentally erasing all saved logins, I now had to recreate mine. I did it successfully, and can access some ...
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Why doesn't Ask Ubuntu let me share my Stack Overflow login?
On any other site in the Stack Exchange network, if I try to sign up it offers to use my existing Stack Overflow login. I've used this feature many times; the upside is that you get an immediate 100 ...
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How to ensure that ownership of all my contributions on the Stack Exchange network is transferred to Community Wiki after my demise? [duplicate]
I wish my affairs to be settled when I'm dead. This includes avoiding the false impression that I am still alive and reachable when actually I am dead. This also means that internet accounts that I ...
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Merging an unregistered account [duplicate]
I realized, after many months, that I once asked a question on the aviation Stack Exchange site, not from this account. Apparently I reentered my email I guessed and created an account which was ...
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Area 51: Unable to log in: No user found [duplicate]
When I click the (tiny) button to log in to Area 51, it gives an error:
I obviously have to have a user account to ask a question here, so this is definitely a bug. Could this be fixed so I can ...
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I'm no longer able to log in to stackoverflow.com from Login link on that site
When I click the Login link on stackoverflow.com, I get redirected to this URL:
https://stackoverflow.com/users/login?ssrc=head&returnurl=https://stackoverflow.com/
This will give me an error for ...
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"Change password" wants to change WRONG Stack Exchange account
I have two SE logins - an old one I'd prefer not to use, davidbak -at- gmail.com, and a new one that I want to switch to, david -at bakins-bits.com.
I can't log in with the new one. Perhaps it is a ...
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Why does trying to log in to a new Stack Exchange (Area 51) with SE credentials still have bad UX?
I have seen Stack Exchange cross-site signup: login with Stack Exchange doesn't work and noted that it is marked as "completed", but that doesn’t square with the experience I just had.
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I cannot log in to Stack Overflow
I have another Stack Overflow account linked to my Facebook account. I believed the first account I signed up was Stack Exchange.
When I tried to log in to Stack Overflow today, it said the account ...
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Help! I can't get back to my account! [duplicate]
I have an old Stack Exchange account I've been using for years. I can still access it on other browsers, but I tried a new browser today.
When I tried to log in via Google SSO, it suggested one of my ...
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