You can sign up for Fluxer with only a name and no email. An account started that way is unclaimed and works only on the device where you made it. When you add an email in "User settings", the account is claimed, and then you can sign in on other devices too.
Signing out without an email
If you sign out of an unclaimed account on its last device, you can't get back into it. Before you sign out, the app asks you to confirm and offers to let you add an email instead.
If your instance has turned on deleting accounts that were never finished, an account like this is deleted by default 24 hours after its last session ends or after 90 days without use, unless you add an email to the account in "User settings" first.
What you can do before you add an email
Before you add an email, you can do these things.
- join communities and read them
- change your settings and themes
- appeal decisions from any email address under section 6.2 of our terms
- disable or delete your account
An account without an email can't do these things yet.
- send messages or react
- send direct messages, join group chats or send or accept friend requests
- change your profile, including your display name and username
- create communities
- join voice channels or calls
- create apps and bots
- report content
Once you add an email, you can send messages and direct messages, accept friend requests and join voice channels and calls. Reacting, sending friend requests, changing your profile, creating communities and reporting content need a confirmed email.
Some instances ask for a confirmed email for more things, like joining communities and creating invites, and other people only see your username until you confirm it.
For legal and accounting reasons, you need to add an email before you buy the Operator Pass, because we have to email you a confirmation of your checkout choices before we deliver your certificate. You also need an email to buy a gift. If you subscribe to Plutonium before you add an email, checkout asks for your email and the code we send to it in the same window, and receipts are only sent to a confirmed email address.
Signing in after you add an email
On fluxer.com, you sign in on another device with your email and your password. If you didn't set a password when you added your email, choose "Forgot your password?" on the sign-in screen, and we email you a link to set one. Some self-hosted instances also let accounts without a password sign in with a 6-digit code they send by email.
If the email already has an account
An email can only be on one account, even if that account never confirmed it.
If the email is yours, choose "Forgot your password?" when you sign in, whether or not the other account has a password. A new password signs every other device out but doesn't confirm the email. To confirm it, use "Enter code" under "Account" in "User settings".