# Future Social Authentication Improvements

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/future-social-authentication-improvements/94691
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [August 14, 2018, 10:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/future-social-authentication-improvements/94691 "2018-08-14T10:20:55Z")
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### Author: ![david](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/david/32/157490_2.png) [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2019, 2:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/future-social-authentication-improvements/94691/3 "2019-01-16T14:00:39Z")

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This framework for this is now in place. Core Facebook and Twitter authenticators have been migrated, and other authenticators will follow over the coming weeks. Documentation can be found here: [Adding a new 'managed' authentication method to Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-a-new-managed-authentication-method-to-discourse/106695)

There is no plan to prevent use of the old system, but it is highly recommended that plugins do migrated, so that complex account association logic can be shared.

I’ll use this topic to track the migrations of core/official-plugin authenticators:

**Core:**  
 [Facebook](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/208005f9c9662773b436c4ffa14272ac0888bb04)  
 [Twitter](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/160d29b18a0ff68f0cdc152b9d5f461869190b7e)  
 [Github](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/11170)  
 [Google](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/fc7938f7e081318ad52462bd2aa1c95e61fb5d03)  
 [Instagram](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/703c724cf3adff0feb89f99be30f4fb4ed540e22)  
 ~~Yahoo~~

**Official Plugins:**  
 OpenID Connect  
 [OAuth 2](https://meta.discourse.org/t/oauth2-basic-support/33879/189)  
 Discord (moved to core)  
 Patreon  
 LinkedIn  
~~[] Ubuntu~~ (deprecated)  
 SAML  
~~[] Azure-AD~~ (deprecated)  
 ~~Office365~~ Microsoft Auth  
 Atlassian Crowd  
 Steam  
~~[] Dwolla~~ (deprecated)

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