# User creation via API is a mess!

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-creation-via-api-is-a-mess/347053
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** rest-api
**Created:** [January 14, 2025, 12:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-creation-via-api-is-a-mess/347053 "2025-01-14T12:52:12Z")
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### Author: ![Canapin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/canapin/32/119591_2.png) [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2025, 1:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-creation-via-api-is-a-mess/347053/2 "2025-01-14T13:07:42Z")

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For the record, some of those were discussed here:

> [@User creation API: ‘active’ attribute set to True but returns False in response](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-creation-api-active-attribute-set-to-true-but-returns-false-in-response/344908/10):
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> Yes, it seems that the reason for the failure was the flag normalize\_email:true it’s true by default. As I turned it off the users got created… However, the API is not considering the normalize\_emails flag and is returning success eventhough the user never got created or activated for that matter confused Should I report this in discourse github ?

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