# An entirely email-less Discourse instance **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [November 21, 2023, 2:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/an-entirely-email-less-discourse-instance/286150 "2023-11-21T02:21:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![meglio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/meglio/32/71444_2.png) [@meglio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meglio)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2023, 7:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/an-entirely-email-less-discourse-instance/286150/3 "2023-11-21T07:52:28Z")
The solution proposed sounds more like a workaround than a feature. Hence me selecting the #Contribute > Feature category for my topic. The idea is to have a truly email-less instance. An example would be a protonmail account that you can setup without specifying any other email (except some cases when their verification system triggers a “need an additional verification” flag). In our particular case, we would not want to use any 3rd party verification service. We don’t need any email notifications or reply-via-email; people would be super confortable interacting with the system through their browers (or in the mobile app) entirely. So, the thing that prevents us from having such a setup is the inability of the user registration to function without emails. Which is, well, a bit countrary to excpectations for some communities considering the amount of services that exist nowadays that don’t require any email at all. Do you think it would be a viable feature request that has a chance to be implemented at some point in time in Discourse? --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/an-entirely-email-less-discourse-instance/286150)._