Guide: Social Logins [Google]

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The forum allow you to log in using social media credentials from Google. To do this, simply click the relevant icon next to the Log In/Sign Up buttons, or click the Log In button, and pick the desired service there. The first time you do this, you will get a page from the social platform asking you if you want to grant forum.profantasy.com permission to see your basic details and email address. This is required for the social login to work, and if you don't want this, you can't use social logins, and just need to create an account on the forum normally.

Note that social logins are completely optional, and are there to just as a convenience for those not wanting to remember yet another account, but for those who prefer, you can still create and use a normal account on the forum not connected to social media.

If you don't have an account with the forum

If you try to login with social media without having an existing account on the forum, one will be made for you, and depending on the social media platform you logged in with, you may be asked to fill in one or two additional details at this point to complete the account. This is only done the first time, after that, you have your forum account, and this is the account you will be logged into when using the social media login. You don't need to worry about the fact that this account exists, just keep logging in with your social media account, and the forum itself will take care of this behind the scenes.

If you already have an account with the forum

If you try to login with social media when you already have an existing forum account, the social media login will be linked to that account, as long as the email addresses are the same. If they are not the same, it will be treated as a new account as above.

When linking the accounts, you will be asked for your forum password the first time you log in with your social media account. This is to confirm ownership of that forum account. This will only happen the first time you log in with each social platform to established the link, for subsequent logins you don't have to provide the forum password each time.

Note that logging in with a social media account WILL set your forum username to the name on that social account. So unless your forum username happens to be the name on your social account (usually your real name) already, it will be changed to this. You can change it back from your profile page if you like, but the change will happen every time you log in with the social media account. If you don't want this to happen, simply keep using a standard forum account instead of social media logins.