Forum login flow is confusing if you used a different email address

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For reasons I don’t remember, I was using a different email for my forum.newsblur.com account than I was for Newsblur itself. This used to work fine, but the login flow changed so that it uses your account information from Newsblur to discover your email address. As a result, it asked me to create a new forum account when I already had one.

I fixed it by changing my Newsblur email address to match my forum account. So I’m okay now, but I think this is quite confusing.

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You’re right. I did switch the NewsBlur forum to use OAuth on newsblur.com, but if you’d like, I can also merge your account based on the email. It seems like you already figured it out and resolved it, but for future users, I’m happy to merge the account so that you don’t have to change your NewsBlur email address just to log in.