There’s a way to prepopulate the email address by linking to forum.example.com/signup?email=alice@example.com. Is there a parameter to also pre-populate the username field? I want to prepopulate it with a random username to reduce sign-up friction. Users will still be able to change it before submi…

there is an existing topic [image] Populating email field on login page Support Hello, How can I send a login link to my users and make sure the email field is already populated ? Something like www.my-discourse-site.com/login?email=person@gmail.com So…

Thanks, I don’t think that other topic is correct, because the feature exists for emails. If you open this URL in an incognito window, it will fill the email but not the username: https://meta.discourse.org/signup?email=user@example.com&username=nova_tsunami_fox_1234

Populating both email and username from URL parameters?

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Lilly (Lillian ) May 13, 2026, 4:43pm 2

there is an existing topic

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Populating both email and username from URL parameters?

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