Login and Sign Up to the CoSocial Members Forum

[boris]

Anyone can register and login to the CoSocial Members Forum at https://members.cosocial.ca

Member Login

Members can use their CoSocial Mastodon account to sign up and log in, without having to create a separate account or password.

Use the CoSocial.ca Mastodon link, and you’ll be redirected to the the CoSocial.ca server.

If you’re not already logged in, you’ll be prompted to do a regular login:

If you are logged in, and haven’t been in the Members Forum before, you’ll get access to approve using your Mastodon account with the forum

(TODO: a screenshot of the approval page)

This is something you only need to do once. Afterwards, using your Mastodon account will just log you straight into the forum.

Getting Added to the coopmembers group

One more step is to get your account added to the coopmembers group in order to get access to the Members only areas.

This is currently a manual process. We look for new members and add them, and will usually private message you on Mastodon when this has been done. We’re looking at how to automate this step for CoSocial Mastodon add-ons.

Non Member Login

Only CoSocial members have accounts on the Mastodon server.

We have enabled regular email / password sign up and login so that people who aren’t co-op members can also participate.

After filling out the signup form, you’ll be sent a verification email and then will be able to use that to login.

Once you have an account on this server, you can access and participate in any of the non-member areas, participate in open work groups, help edit the Public Wiki, and other features of the forum.

Members with multiple accounts

Some members may accidentally create a regular email based login, rather than use their Mastodon account. That’s OK!

Message @techopsWG and we can merge your accounts so you can use your CoSocial Mastodon.

[cogdog]

Been away from here a while… FYI, the link for the button to login via Mastodon has an error- it leaves out the colon for the web address, and https// goes nowhere. i was able to login just by slipping the “:” where it belongs. Perfecto.

[boris]

Thanks. That must be a recent update bug. Will look into it.

[deborahh]

What dioes this mean?

@boris

use their CoSocial Mastodon account to sign up

I’ve been trying to log in with the email I used to join cosocial.ca

But am I supposed to put in @deborahh@cosocial.ca ? Or something else?

I’m always confused, trying to get in, in the end I have to wait for an email (it”s slow, at my end, I have to wait for it to be forwarded). Usually I just give up.

PREFERRED: I’d like to just log in with email and password, but right now that fails. I cannot see where to change my passwird on this forum. Help would be appreciated.

PS: I’ve logged in here several times, each time I am asked to log in again, so I don’t k iw what “you’ll only have to do this once” is about .

[boris]

Hi @deborahh you don’t need to use a username and password to login in here, you use your Cosocial Mastodon account. I looked, and your account does appear to be linked – no email needed.

I just updated the screenshot above “Welcome Back”.

If you are not logged in, and you hit the login button in the top right corner, you’ll see this Welcome back screen.

Don’t use email and password, click on “CoSocial.ca Mastodon” → now you’ll be redirected to our Mastodon server which will log you in. This way, you only have one account, your CoSocial Mastodon account, to manage.

[deborahh]

Thanks, I hope it works. Cannot tell as I’m already logged in today.

But I’ll restate my request (in more words) :

I like the familiarity of login with email and password. You said “you don’t have to” … but is it possible? If so, where do I reset my password?

[boris]

The default setup for the members forum is to not make members create a second account, which also helps verify members as they are the only ones with Mastodon accounts on our server.

The forum software supports username and password for non-members, so they can participate.

It does look like you have been successfully logging in with your Mastodon account, from what I can tell in the server logs.

I don’t have time today, but perhaps someone can make a screen recording to add to the documentation here.

[deborahh]

Sounds great, thanks!