Signup and login via Github is now enabled

[aschrijver]

In addition to a regular signup process and login with your username and password, it is now also possible to signup / login directly with your Github account (using OAuth authentication).

Signup

Selecting Github brings you to:

Where you need to sign in with your Github account. If you were already signed in, then you can just accept and your account will be created.

Login

Then on subsequent logins select the Github issue as well:

Associating existing account to Github

In your profile settings you can associate your existing account with Github and then Github will be used for subsequent logins:

[kmir]

You don’t see the irony in this?

[aschrijver]

Sure. I am a big advocate of using different forges and decentralizing them, but at the same time our presence is on Github and participation in e.g. the translation program would involve interacting with GH repositories.