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Ask HN: How to limit duplicate accounts with social sign-in options?
I was wondering what the best practice is when allowing users to sign up with multiple different services and email.
On our product, you can sign-up with email, Twitter, Facebook, Google and LinkedIn.
LinkedIn and Twitter do not provide an email so if you don't connect them to your original account, attempting to sign-in with them creates a new account.
With Google and Facebook, although they provide emails, it's often different than what the user connects to their original account.
Was looking for resources/best-practice feedback on this. Thanks!
- Gertig 14y agoThis is a problem all sites with multiple sign on options face. I suggest going the Pinterest route of requiring the user to fill in email no matter which path they take.
- cyrusradfar 14y agoWe do that, but the problem is the fact that users create multiple accounts b/c they forget they logged in with email and then use Twitter which doesn't provide an email.