# API, maak gebruiker, retourneert niet langer user\_id
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/api-create-user-no-longer-returns-user-id/343427
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [19 december 2024 om 17:35 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/api-create-user-no-longer-returns-user-id/343427 "2024-12-19T17:35:21Z")
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### Author:  [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)
#### Post date: [19 december 2024 om 20:39 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/api-create-user-no-longer-returns-user-id/343427/7 "2024-12-19T20:39:01Z")
Just a hunch
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probably related to [DEV: Change hide\_email\_address\_taken default to true (#30293) · discourse/discourse@c1c7ea8 · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/c1c7ea89592f3ceee2edeec544b3dcc170df87c2) explained here:
> [@Hiding "e-mail taken" on sign-up by default](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hiding-e-mail-taken-on-sign-up-by-default/342599):
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> 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: 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: This also affects password resets in similar ways. With the setting di…
> [@Hiding "e-mail taken" on sign-up by default](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hiding-e-mail-taken-on-sign-up-by-default/342599/1):
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> 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?
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