Signing in

Press Sign In in the Account menu. You have two ways in.

With your password

Give your Email address and your Password and press Sign in. You are taken back to the page that sent you to sign in, or to the admin if none did.

If either is wrong, the page says only that the email address or password is incorrect. It does not say which, nor whether the address has an account, so that nobody can use it to find out who does.

An address that has failed to sign in ten times in an hour is held for the rest of that hour. Whoever signs in to it is told to wait an hour and try again, even with the right password. It is a limit on guessing, and a limit that let the right password through would stop nobody guessing.

An account whose email address has not been confirmed has no password yet, so it cannot be signed in to. Follow the link in the email, or ask for a new one: Registering and confirming says how.

With Google

Sign in with Google and Register with Google use the Google account you choose, so the site never sees a password for it. An account made this way has no password until you ask for one.

To sign in with a password as well, choose Set Password in the Account menu and press Email me a link. The link goes to your account's email address and sets a password the way the link for a forgotten password does.

If you have forgotten your password

Press Forgot Password? on the sign in page, give your email address, and press Send me a way back in. The page says to check your email whether or not the address has an account. What is sent depends on the address, and only its owner reads it: a link to set a new password, the link to confirm an address that was never confirmed, or a link to register.

The link to set a new password works once, and for an hour. Open it, type the new password twice, and press Set my new password. Setting a new password signs the account out everywhere, on every device, because you may be setting it since somebody else got in. Then sign in with the password you chose.

A request to be sent a way back in is limited, so that the page cannot be used to fill somebody's inbox.

Signing out

Press Sign Out in the Account menu.

Next: Passwords.