How to sign in to a community on Lockers

Before you start

You need a Lockers account. If you do not have one yet, you create it during your first sign-in, so you can start from the community site either way. Signing in works the same on every plan, and it does not depend on your role.

Your browser has to accept cookies from lockers.social and from the community's own address. A per-site block or a privacy extension that blocks one of the two will stop the sign-in on that site.

Sign in from a community site

You type your password only on lockers.social. No matter how many communities you belong to, the community sites themselves never ask for it.

1. 1

   Select Sign in

   Open the community and select Sign in.

2. 2

   Continue on lockers.social

   The page sends you to lockers.social, where the form is headed Sign in to Lockers. with the line Use your email and password to continue.

3. 3

   Enter your details

   Enter your email and password. If you use Google, select Continue with Google above the form instead.

4. 4

   Come back to the community

   Lockers sends you back to the community. While the return finishes, the page shows Signing you in.

5. 5

   Return to the page you started from

   You are back on the page you started from, signed in.

Sign in with Google

When Google sign-in is available, lockers.social shows Continue with Google above the email and password fields. Select it, choose your Google account, and Lockers brings you back to the community. If the button is not there, sign in with your email and password.

If your Google address already belongs to a verified Lockers account, Google signs you in to that same account. A new account created through Google starts with its email already verified, and you accept the Lockers terms before you join a community.

If Google does not start, the form says We couldn't start Google sign-in. Try again.

Join a community for the first time

Lockers creates your account first and your membership second, so the first form you see is the Lockers account form. The same account then works for the next community you join.

1. 1

   Select Join

   Open the community and select Join.

2. 2

   Start the account

   On lockers.social, choose to create an account. The form is headed Create your Lockers account. You can also select Continue with Google if it appears.

3. 3

   Enter your details

   Enter your email and a password.

4. 4

   Confirm your email

   Lockers emails you a verification code. The screen reads Check your inbox., and the field is labeled Verification code. Type it there.

5. 5

   Join the community

   Once the account exists, Lockers returns you to the community site, where you join the community itself.

Communities that approve members or charge for membership

In a community that approves each new member, finishing your account sends a join request. The page shows Your request is waiting for approval with a Cancel request button, and it updates by itself when an owner or admin decides. If they approve you, you also get an email saying your request was approved.

If your request is not approved, the page says so and offers Request again. A community that charges for membership takes you to its membership page to pay before you join.

If you forgot your password

Reset it on lockers.social. The reset runs there in full, and when it finishes, the Return to sign in link puts you back on the sign-in form. Start the sign-in from the community again after that, so it returns you to the page you wanted.

When you are already signed in

If you signed in on lockers.social earlier in the same browser, entering a community shows no form at all. The page redirects twice and uses your existing lockers.social sign-in, which is why you type your password once per browser.

If the sign-in does not complete

Two messages can appear on the community site. Both offer a Start again button, which begins the sign-in again from the community you were trying to enter.

• The message Sign-in link is not valid means the link you came back with is no longer good. Select Start again.
• The message Sign-in didn't complete. means the return ran out before you were signed in. Select Start again.
• If Start again keeps showing the same message, check that cookies are allowed for both lockers.social and the community's address, then try once more.

Move between your communities

One account covers every community you belong to, and the avatar menu is where you move between them. See Use more than one Locker for switching, and Sign out of Lockers for what logging out of one community does to the others.