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Linking with Stack Exchange gives error "couldn't parse client_id"
Problem:
I see the following error when I link my account with StackExchange:
Couldn't parse
client_id
How we got here:
- I click on my profile picture -> Click Edit -> Scroll down to Link with Stack Exchange -> Click Authenticate -> Enter my Stack Exchange login credentials.
Preliminary analysis:
I confirmed that my Stack Exchange login credentials are correct as follows:
- I opened a private browsing window, logged in to my codidact account, then followed the above steps.
- In the same window (and actually the same tab), I opened stackoverflow.com after getting the above error, and I was already logged in.
Additional information:
- OS: Windows 10 64-bit
- Browsers:
- Brave: Version 1.7.98 Chromium: 81.0.4044.113 (Official Build) (64-bit)
- Firefox: 73.0.1 (64-bit)
- My account on Stack Overflow is "temporarily suspended".
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I had exactly the same poor experience when trying to use this feature after creating a new account and filling out my profile.
If this isn't going to be supported for Meta Codidact, then it should be greyed out in the profile or show some other sort of explanatory message.
Frankly, though, I don't understand why it wouldn't be supported for Meta Codidact. You shouldn't associate yourself with individual Stack Exchange site accounts. That's too much work; I don't want to have to do that for each Codidact site that I join. Instead, you should associate yourself with your Stack Exchange network account; e.g., https://stackexchange.com/users/152400/cody-gray.
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