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How do I sign in with email?

You don’t need a GitHub account to use AccessLint. Email sign-in gives you a personal workspace where you can monitor your site with Flows. (Pull request reviews are the one feature that still requires the GitHub App, since they run on your repositories.)

The same flow signs up new users and signs in returning ones: there’s no separate registration step, and no password to create.

  1. Go to the sign-in page and enter your email address.
  2. Click Email me a sign-in link, then check your inbox.
  3. Click the link in the email, or, if you opened the email on another device, type the token from the email into the page instead.

A link works once and expires after 30 minutes. If it expires or has already been used, just request a new one. To limit abuse, you can only request a few links per hour for the same address. If you hit the limit, wait a few minutes and try again.

Your first sign-in

On your first sign-in, AccessLint creates your personal workspace and walks you through setup:

  1. Add a domain: the site you want to monitor.
  2. Verify the domain: prove you control it. See How do I set up a domain?
  3. Create a flow: the journey to check on a schedule. See How do I author a flow?

A free personal workspace includes 1 flow. Subscribing raises the limit to 5. See How do I change or cancel my plan?

Already use GitHub?

If you installed the AccessLint GitHub App, keep signing in with GitHub: that’s where your repos and pull request reviews live. Email sign-in creates a separate personal workspace; the two aren’t merged.