Questions tagged [user-accounts]
Refers to user accounts either generically, or across the network.
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How is the period of suspension for suspended accounts determined? [duplicate]
I happened to come across the (suspended) account of former Stack Exchange contributor Ron Maimon. The header to his user page reads: “This account is temporarily suspended network-wide. The ...
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Why do I keep getting logged out from Stack Overflow? [duplicate]
I don't know what is going on with the Stack Overflow website.
Every day I open the website, my user account is logged out.
It is very annoying and frustrating behavior to log in again and again.
The ...
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Not Receiving Email Confirmation for Proposal Creation on Area 51 [duplicate]
I'm experiencing an issue where I'm not receiving the email confirmation required to create a proposal on Area 51.
The goal is a register a Stack Exchange site for an open source community.
This is ...
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I log in and I find out I am another user. What are the privacy implications?
I just logged in after being off for a week and I found out I was in the profile of another user. I understood what happened because some notifications pointed me to this and this question.
I ...
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Stack Overflow announcement profile [duplicate]
Feature request: a Stack Overflow announcement account!
So as you all know, Stack Overflow manages a lot of the administration of the Stack Exchange network, so this is not site specific.
I just want ...
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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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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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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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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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Why is stackexchange.com not a single website with one account? [duplicate]
Why do I have to create another account every time I post on a new site?
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How can I get email updates on questions I post?
How do I subscribe to receive email updates on comments and answers to questions that I post? Preferably this would be enabled by default on any new question I post. It used to be the case, but for ...
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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 accounts tab here
Ethereum,
Martial Arts Stack Exchange, and
Stack Overflow are listed.
I don't know why these accounts are shown on the page (see image) above.
Moreover, not ...
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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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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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