I have a script that runs daily to create new users via the API. Up until a few days ago, when the post would complete, the response included the user_id of the newly created user. Now the API no longer does so? But the API docs indicate that it should. Discourse API Docs …

Is the user being created? My guess is that for some reason the user isn’t being created and that’s why it’s not returning the user_id.

The users are getting created. I have confirmed. And the API gives back this status but it’s missing the user_id { "success": true, "active": true, "message": "Your account is activated and ready to use." }

Yeah. That seems like a bug, then. I looked for explanations in Commits · discourse/discourse · GitHub but didn’t find one.

To confirm the issue, I created a user through the API on 3.4.0.beta3-dev and it returned user_id in the response. { "success": true, "active": true, "message": "Your account is activated and ready to use.", "user_id": 3 } I did it again after upgrading to 3.4.0.beta4-dev and user_id is then m…

So you’ve narrowed down where the errant commit is.

Just a hunch app/controllers/users_controller.rb main # If the user was created as active this will # ensure their email is confirmed and probably related to DEV: Change hide_email_address_taken default to true…

[图片] Hiding "e-mail taken" on sign-up by default hide_email_address_taken Thank you! Changing that setting did restore the API result so that I get the user_id in the result after creating a user.

Hello, Same here… Is it something currently ongoing for the devs? Because it may be tricky to remember that this settings counteract the docs :stuck_out_tongue:

API 创建用户不再返回 user_id

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weber-s (Samuël Weber/GwendalD) 2025 年4 月 17 日 13:22 9

你好，

我也是……

这是开发人员目前正在处理的事情吗？因为记住这些设置与文档相矛盾可能会很棘手

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