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Create an account

Gilgamesh is in alpha: accounts are created by invitation, with a code.

The invitation code

The person who invites you sends you a code, on its own or in a link that pre-fills the sign-up form. It works only once and expires after 30 days.

Sign up

1. On the sign-in screen, choose to create an account.
2. Fill in:
   • your username: it identifies you and is used to sign in (without "@");
   • your email address: it confirms your account, recovers your password and receives security alerts;
   • a password of at least 10 characters;
   • the invitation code.
3. Tick the terms of use box (you must be at least 18).
4. Open the confirmation link you receive by email. Check your spam folder too.

Until the address is confirmed, sign-in stays closed. An unconfirmed sign-up is deleted after 7 days.

Sign in

With your username or your address, and your password. If you turned on two-factor authentication, you are then asked for a code.

After several failures, sign-in locks for a while, longer each time: it protects you from anyone trying to guess your password.

Forgotten password

1. Sign-in screen › "Forgot your password?".
2. Your username or your address.
3. Open the link you receive and choose a new password. Your other sessions are closed.

Reader or author

An account created from a reading link is a reader account: it reads the versions sent to it. An author account also writes its own projects; you become one with an invitation code (Settings › Account). See Account and security.