All the instructions on both Discourse and Patreon’s site instructs end-users to claim benefits by registering a new account via Patreon. What about veteran/existing end-users, or those that register via an alt login type (Facebook, etc)? PS - can we add this answer to the Patreon setup docs, too? How does Discourse know a user is a Patron if they never linked the account in some form?

It can’t, you would need to make the association. Presumably it works the same way as other social accounts in the users profile?

You can’t connect new social accounts unless you register EDIT: Whoa, it does exist - but I can’t find this on my forum, even when updated to the latest. I wonder why? O__O Meta: [image] My forum doesn’t have this section. How do I add it?

Yep - we actually have multiple logins, including Patreon, but none of these “associated accounts” appear in profile: https://forum.imperium42.com

Wait, I found the reason (not solution) here: [image] How do I enable Associated Accounts with 2FA? Support On my site (https://discuss.openedx.org), I don’t see Associated Accounts when I go to edit my profile, like I do when I edit my profile here. But I can’t see anything in settings or plugins that looks like something I have to enable. What am I missing? It’s suppressed when 2FA is enabled. --@Falco …but this means that activating 2FA, which is highly recommended, kills off essential features to make Patreon (or any connection) work? TL;DR: 2FA kills off “associated accounts” section, including Patreon?

Apparently, this feature got approved in 2018, but does not seem to be working (unless there’s some setting I checked to hide it, but I cannot find such): https://review.discourse.org/t/feature-allow-connecting-associated-accounts-when-two-factor-is-enabled-6754/698

To add, this is what new users see to register: [image] However, this is all that shows up to a user that doesn’t have 2FA: [image] Only FB? Discord may have been a 3rd-party plugin (I can’t recall - why this associated account link would be off-topic), but Patreon is the official plugin – how come there’s not a Patreon connect link for existing accounts?

How do existing Discourse end-users link Patreon?

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JimPas April 13, 2020, 6:56am 4

Have you enabled Patreon in your site settings in admin/site_settings/category/plugins and entered your details?

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