I have created a new forum hosted on Discourse itself. The forum is for members of an organization. I want to use the Full name requirement (and I have that selected under Settings > Users > Full name requirement.
But, when a user tries to register he/she gets redirected to a Discourse ID login which allows them to sign up only with a username.
What am I missing?
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Lilly
(Lillian )
May 7, 2026, 2:33pm
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Hiya Robert welcome.
are you purposely using Discord to login? or do you mean Discourse ID? do you have this setting enabled? if so, try disabling.
Hi Lilly. Sorry I meant Discourse ID. Ha. I am trying to find where in the Settings this “Enable Discourse ID” is…
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Lilly
(Lillian )
May 7, 2026, 2:38pm
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go to all site settings and search for “discourse id”
Lilly
(Lillian )
May 7, 2026, 2:46pm
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oh what hosting plan are you using? i suspect it may be limitation on the free plan or something (i can’t remember what they allow on that tier).
edit: looks like the free plan has pre-configured logins with Discourse ID, meaning you can’t change the login related settings
pmusaraj
(Penar Musaraj)
May 7, 2026, 3:18pm
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You should be able to find the login options under Admin > Community > Login & Authentication.
So, it is marked as required? If so, it should force new signups to set that field, regardless of login method (local login, Discourse ID or other)
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Lilly
(Lillian )
May 7, 2026, 3:50pm
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what is the difference between these two settings?
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pmusaraj
(Penar Musaraj)
May 7, 2026, 3:55pm
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They are the same setting. Just shown in two different contexts.
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Lilly
(Lillian )
May 7, 2026, 4:04pm
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i fired up a free plan and enabled these
but this is what i see on sign up
then it takes me here:
what did i do wrong here?
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I do believe you are correct, Lilly. Free plan only allows Discourse ID to sign up.
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pmusaraj
(Penar Musaraj)
May 7, 2026, 4:14pm
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Thanks for testing!
I think you are running into a different issue. I went through the same flow, and I can reproduce what @hammerdunner showed in the OP, the new user gets logged in straight. I also notice here that ID autofills the full name field.
We need to fix this, I’ll move this to the Contribute > Bug category.
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keegan
(Keegan George)
June 24, 2026, 3:28pm
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Sorry, forgot to post an update. This was fixed a while back here:
main ← fix-full-name-requirement
merged 10:17PM - 07 May 26 UTC
**Previously**, when `full_name_requirement` was set to "required_at_signup" and… `auth_skip_create_confirm` was enabled, Discourse ID signups bypassed the name requirement by auto-suggesting a name from the username.
**In this update**, the client authenticator extracts the provider-supplied name, and the signup flow no longer skips confirmation when a real name is required but not provided by the auth provider.
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