# Social Login for this forum e.g. Google
**URL:** https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/social-login-for-this-forum-e-g-google/298
**Category:** Meta
**Tags:** meta
**Created:** [April 19, 2025, 11:18am UTC](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/social-login-for-this-forum-e-g-google/298 "2025-04-19T11:18:35Z")
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### Author:  [@rufuspollock](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/u/rufuspollock)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2025, 11:18am UTC](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/social-login-for-this-forum-e-g-google/298/1 "2025-04-19T11:18:35Z")
Would be nice to enable social login for this forum.
What do people think?
Instructions here:
> **[Configure Google login for Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/configure-google-login-for-discourse/15858)**
>
> 🔖 This guide explains how to set up Google login integration for your Discourse site by configuring OAuth2 credentials in the Google Cloud Console. 🙋 Required user level: Administrator Overview Google login allows users to sign in to your...
Needs an admin and a Life Itself admin to set up the stuff in google console.
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### Author:  [@JamesBaker](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/u/JamesBaker)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2025, 9:34pm UTC](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/social-login-for-this-forum-e-g-google/298/2 "2025-04-19T21:34:39Z")
Probably, but I never ever use it myself?
My reason is “because I use a password manager and want to avoid putting all my digital keys in the hands of a single company that might randomly turn off my account” but the question that I have for people that do use social login is…
How do you remember where you’ve used which kind of login? Do you have to remember that meta-fact on a per-site basis? Or does it only work for you if you use a simple rule set like “whenever (my preferred) 3rd party login is available, I use it, and if that doesn’t work then I try my usual default password and if that doesn’t work then I just reset my password?”
Because yeah while my personal simple rule is “I just never ever use it” I suppose there might be some “I always use it” folks out there. Would it confuse anyone to add social login? Maybe a bit, but no more than we all put up with everywhere else already.
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### Author:  [@RobertBunge](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/u/RobertBunge)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2025, 11:04am UTC](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/social-login-for-this-forum-e-g-google/298/3 "2025-04-20T11:04:58Z")
> [@JamesBaker](#):
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> How do you remember where you’ve used which kind of login? Do you have to remember that meta-fact on a per-site basis?
My simple rule is 1) do I just need to login for some reason, 2) is this site trivial in my grander scheme of things, i.e. not worth the bother of its own password, and 3) does it just work (without a lot of two-factor ceremony, etc.). Then, yes, I’ll login with one of the socials.
FYI, I did take the trouble to make a unique password for 2R (that was the only option anyway), because it fails on point 2) above. If this was a cat meme site or something like that, social login would be fine.