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Linking with Stack Exchange gives error "couldn't parse client_id"

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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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[Note: This started as a comment to the discussion on Cody Gray's answer, but it became too long so I am posting it as an answer, which additionally allows formatting and adding pictures.]

The SE site linking interface could be modified as follows:

  • Move the Link with Stack Exchange option to the "top level" site codidact.com.
  • Populate the individual SE accounts as a checkbox list.
    • SE sites where user doesn't have any content shall be excluded (or grayed out).
    • SE sites without a corresponding Codidact site shall be grayed out, with link to Site Suggestions.
  • Select all sites by default.
  • Provide options to select or deselect all sites at once.
  • Provide a search box to search for specific sites.

The linking can be done multiple times. Users who wish to continue contributing to SE or contribute to a new SE site after linking can thus import their newer content. However, content which has been deleted on SE after being imported will not be automatically deleted.

Wireframe for linking

With this interface, the most common (expected) usecase of linking all sites requires least user effort. It also enables other usecases, such as skipping a few sites, to be handled with just a little more effort.

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ArtOfCode‭ wrote over 4 years ago

This might be something we do at some point, and we'll certainly keep it in mind... but it's not going to be any time soon; we have something that works here even if it's not optimal yet, so there are more important things to work on first before we come back to do a polish pass. codidact.com is just a static site; there's no server-side behind it, whereas all the communities are full-stack, so it's likely that the code for the import process will still need to reside in the community scope.

Masked Man‭ wrote over 4 years ago

@ArtOfCode Certainly, this isn't a high priority at the moment. Nonetheless, I think it would still be useful to have a "top level" user profile. Of course, that too, can be looked into later.

ArtOfCode‭ wrote over 4 years ago

Technically there is a top-level user profile, and it even has the SE account ID stored against it. What it doesn't do at the moment is auto-transfer content from new sites when they start up.

Masked Man‭ wrote over 4 years ago

@ArtOfCode I see. I wasn't referring specifically to the linking usecase though. I meant a "top level" user profile similar to what's there on SE, where there are links to the user's other accounts. I'm also concerned about user profile on each site being nearly completely independent of each other, with the need to login to each separately, separate notification lists, etc.

ArtOfCode‭ wrote over 4 years ago

Aye, notifications are on the list to look at at some point, as is login (though that's less critical, once you hit "remember me").