# User Fields - weird signup behavior

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-fields-weird-signup-behavior/320146>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Tags:** stable, user-custom-fields\
**Created:** [August 5, 2024, 11:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-fields-weird-signup-behavior/320146 "2024-08-05T11:32:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![ted](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ted/32/283882_2.png) [@ted](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ted)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2024, 6:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-fields-weird-signup-behavior/320146/13 "2024-08-26T06:34:19Z")

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Hello, @ecki! 👋

Thanks for the report. I’ll look into this.

> [@ecki](#):
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> not sure if it is relevant, but some of the users might have been signed up with the “invite” or “automatically accept” and “add to grroup by email” function.

I suspect this is the key. There may be an assumption that all users with an account have at some point “signed up”, which might be causing issues.

Will get back to you once I’ve done some more investigating.

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