Hello, are there badges from patreon supporters here? My forum account is different from my patreon account.
Thanks and greetings 
Yes there is a badge for Patreon supporters. Theoretically you should be able to connect your account within your own user preference menu. There is an option to associate your forum account with Patreons.
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Thanks, though Discourse asks for a link after a logout and click on Patreon. If I then select my existing account here from the forum, enter my twofactor, I land in the permanent loop and on a page of the dietpi overview.
This means, you associated your Patreon account within preference menu? And trying a new Discourse login using the Patreon option is not working?
I just successfully connected my Patreon account. On user preferences I selected Patreon “Connect”, was redirected to the Patreon website to confirm (was already logged in there), then redirected to this forum where I needed to confirm again. That worked. Not sure whether the email addresses need to match? Does it make a difference when you log in at Patreon first, then try to connect your account?
Already logged in on Patreon.
DietPi Forum: Login with Patreon (patreon@domain.de)
Discourse would like to… Allow
Forward to DietPi Community Forum - Welcome to the DietPi OS Community Forum
New Account? No → Got an Account → (dietpi@domain.de)
Error.
No idea if the mails actually have to be identical. Patreon and the forum have different mails for me.
I just tested again on a different PC where I wasn’t logged in on Patreon and trying to “Login with Patreon” on the forum instead of connecting via user preferences and it worked as well:
- Login at Patreon
- 2FA
- Allow
- Successful redirect to the forum, logged in
I think the problem is the different E-Mail address. It makes sense that an external authentication system can only authenticate the E-Mail address your registered with there. Otherwise, you would be able to hijack any other account, like
Hi, I’m
patreon@domain.debut on the other forum, I’manyone@otherdomain.de, trust me and tell the forum to let me in with this account!
How can Discourse and Patreon know that it’s the same persons accounts you’re connecting, if not via E-Mail address? Even if you are currently logged in on both sides (hence use the “connect” button in user preferences), it feels like a security issue to me if this alone would be taken as sufficient reason for remote authentication, without the E-Mail address as assurance that it’s the same person behind those accounts/sessions.
You should be able to change your E-Mail address here and as well on Patreon, at least for testing/verifying this, and change it back if you require those to be different.
What is actually the URL in the address field when you see the “404”?
I give up. Identical mail used on both platforms. Different browser. Nothing to see.
Is there a button in the settings to activate it? Or does it show up in the badges?
Of course I don’t get the 404 page as redirect now 
It could take a while for the IDs to be checked. It is not something that happens immediately.
Btw: I moved the entire discussion into on own topic to keep the original one clear
@MichaIng
I have seen following on our forum logs
Patreon Creator’s access and refresh token values are incorrect.
Seems we need to refresh token 
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if you refresh: currently i have two separate mails again 
Interesting, the creators access token was empty, I just filled it. Probably it was not required for me since my account matches the creators account?
@Klola
Please retry to connect/login with your Patreon account.
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At least I can see the red Patreon flair on the profile picture now.
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Looks like that was the error. Yay
I received my badge directly after logging in.
My emails are still different
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So I linked my Patreon account as well, but at the moment I can’t see anything regarding Patreon. Neither as a badge, nor near my profile picture. My e-mail addresses are different, but I think that should not matter when linking accounts?
just give it time to sync. It might take a while.