# About the idea: IDENTITY = EMAIL

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-the-idea-identity-email/34642>\
**Category:** Site feedback\
**Tags:** email\
**Created:** [October 18, 2015, 12:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-the-idea-identity-email/34642 "2015-10-18T00:41:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2015, 8:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-the-idea-identity-email/34642/6 "2015-10-18T20:11:35Z")

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> [@jd2066](#):
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> I suppose in short, I can say while I don’t think using an email address as an identity is a good idea, it appears that in certain situations Discourse has no other way to identify a user.

I have absolutely no idea what you are proposing … if you want to log in with your username you can.

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