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  • Tclers' Wiki login by nickname busted?

    From Bezoar@21:1/5 to All on Wed Apr 27 22:29:51 2022
    In the past I've been able to login the the Tcler's wiki just using my nickname and the login page does offer the choice to login with a nickname and with a maintainers login. But once I enter my nickname, successfully complete the captcha and press
    the "login using nickname" button it takes me to the maintainers login. Is it busted or is this a new policy? Do you have to sign up to be a maintainer?

    Carl

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  • From Arjen Markus@21:1/5 to Bezoar on Wed Apr 27 23:21:35 2022
    On Thursday, April 28, 2022 at 7:29:53 AM UTC+2, Bezoar wrote:
    In the past I've been able to login the the Tcler's wiki just using my nickname and the login page does offer the choice to login with a nickname and with a maintainers login. But once I enter my nickname, successfully complete the captcha and press
    the "login using nickname" button it takes me to the maintainers login. Is it busted or is this a new policy? Do you have to sign up to be a maintainer?

    Carl
    I see no different behaviour - I can log in as usual, but I log in as a registered user.

    Regards,

    Arjen

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  • From stevel@21:1/5 to Bezoar on Wed Apr 27 23:44:10 2022
    On Thursday, 28 April 2022 at 13:29:53 UTC+8, Bezoar wrote:
    In the past I've been able to login the the Tcler's wiki just using my nickname and the login page does offer the choice to login with a nickname and with a maintainers login. But once I enter my nickname, successfully complete the captcha and press
    the "login using nickname" button it takes me to the maintainers login. Is it busted or is this a new policy? Do you have to sign up to be a maintainer?

    Carl

    You don't need to sign up to maintain content, you just have to provide a nickname. Signing up just reserves the nickname and mostly allows you to avoid the captcha.

    However there is a bug in the signup process, once you request a login for your nickname you can't use it until the login is approved. There is a fix ready for deployment that will address this, but in the meantime I've approved your request.

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  • From Bezoar@21:1/5 to stevel on Thu Apr 28 17:11:40 2022
    On 4/28/2022 1:44 AM, stevel wrote:
    On Thursday, 28 April 2022 at 13:29:53 UTC+8, Bezoar wrote:
    In the past I've been able to login the the Tcler's wiki just using my nickname and the login page does offer the choice to login with a nickname and with a maintainers login. But once I enter my nickname, successfully complete the captcha and press
    the "login using nickname" button it takes me to the maintainers login. Is it busted or is this a new policy? Do you have to sign up to be a maintainer?

    Carl

    You don't need to sign up to maintain content, you just have to provide a nickname. Signing up just reserves the nickname and mostly allows you to avoid the captcha.

    However there is a bug in the signup process, once you request a login for your nickname you can't use it until the login is approved. There is a fix ready for deployment that will address this, but in the meantime I've approved your request.

    Yes that is the problem, I signed up for a maintainer login after I
    could not get in. Thanks for letting me know.

    Carl

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