# Added a new authentification/registration method (Discourse ID)

**URL:** <https://unicyclist.com/t/added-a-new-authentification-registration-method-discourse-id/293414>\
**Category:** Forum Feedback\
**Created:** [October 13, 2025, 12:39pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/added-a-new-authentification-registration-method-discourse-id/293414 "2025-10-13T12:39:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Canapin](https://unicyclist.com/user_avatar/unicyclist.com/canapin/32/2_2.png) [@Canapin](https://unicyclist.com/u/Canapin)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2025, 12:39pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/added-a-new-authentification-registration-method-discourse-id/293414/1 "2025-10-13T12:39:55Z")

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Discourse (the software that runs the forum) now provides an authentication method called Discourse ID that works across all Discourse websites on the Internet as long as they have enabled it.

More info:

> **[Discourse ID is now available. Try it today!](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-id-is-now-available-try-it-today/385007?u=canapin)**
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> We’re happy to announce that Discourse ID can now be enabled on all Discourse sites, including both hosted and self-hosted sites! ℹ Discourse ID provides a faster login experience across participating Discourse sites so you don’t have to create...

It doesn’t _change_ anything for users, it just adds an authentication and registration method along with the usual ones.

 ![image](https://unicyclist.com/uploads/default/original/3X/0/7/07f04a91162dd1345d7a9680ffaffd6d8f78efdc.png)

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**Author:** ![Canapin](https://unicyclist.com/user_avatar/unicyclist.com/canapin/32/2_2.png) [@Canapin](https://unicyclist.com/u/Canapin)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2025, 5:55pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/added-a-new-authentification-registration-method-discourse-id/293414/2 "2025-10-17T17:55:54Z")

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I’ve disabled three of the available authentication methods:

- Github, because it’s available through Discourse ID

- Google, first because of many spam account registrations, and then because it’s available through Discourse ID

- X/Twitter, because it didn’t work anymore and I felt the same bliss getting rid of it as when I [disabled Facebook registrations](https://unicyclist.com/t/we-disabled-facebook-login-registrations/276735) three years ago.

Registration via an Apple account is now possible through Discourse ID.

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**Author:** ![Setonix](https://unicyclist.com/user_avatar/unicyclist.com/setonix/32/3879_2.png) [@Setonix](https://unicyclist.com/u/Setonix)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2025, 7:28pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/added-a-new-authentification-registration-method-discourse-id/293414/3 "2025-10-29T19:28:32Z")

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So nice that the uni forum has no relation to Microsoft.  
Again they have a big outage. Earlier this year it took a week before I could get to my mail and tonight many Azure services are offline as well as Minecraft which I was gonna play with my daughter and all support messages expected the problems to be with the client apps because … Microsoft services will never crash. Pfft so fragile it all is