API, create user, no longer returns user_id

[RGJ (Richard - Communiteq)]

Just a hunch

discourse/discourse/blob/main/app/controllers/users_controller.rb#L782-L783

probably related to DEV: Change hide_email_address_taken default to true (#30293) · discourse/discourse@c1c7ea8 · GitHub explained here:

Hiding "e-mail taken" on sign-up by default

Background Under the current default settings, when signing up for an account with an e-mail that has already been registered, the sign-up form will inform of that: [Screenshot 2024-12-16 at 12.32.31 PM] We are changing the default setting to not give away this information. Instead, the sign-up form will look like this, regardless of whether the e-mail is already registered or not: [Screenshot 2024-12-16 at 12.30.04 PM] This also affects password resets in similar ways. With the setting di…

@ted

If you want to change back to the old default, you can set the hide_email_address_taken setting back to false.

I guess it would be desirable to override this behavior when it’s a request made using an admin API key?