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.
Request a sign-in link
- Go to the sign-in page and enter your email address. You may be asked to clear a quick challenge to prove you’re not a bot.
- Click Email me a sign-in link, then check your inbox.
- Click the link in the email. It opens a page asking you to confirm, showing the address you’re signing in as. Click Confirm sign-in to finish.
You can also skip the link: the page you land on after requesting has a Token field, and the email includes a token to type into it. That’s the path to use if you opened the email on a different device.
Clicking the link never signs you in on its own. The confirm button is deliberate, so that something scanning your inbox for links can’t consume the sign-in or complete it on your behalf.
A link works once and expires after 15 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.
Disposable and throwaway addresses are rejected, as are addresses that have previously bounced or whose domain can’t receive mail. Forwarding services like Apple’s Hide My Email and Firefox Relay work fine.
Your first sign-in
On your first sign-in, AccessLint creates your personal workspace and walks you through setup:
- Add a domain: the site you want to monitor.
- Create a flow: the journey to check on a schedule. See How do I author a flow?
- Verify the domain: prove you control it. See How do I set up a domain?
- Run it.
Drafting comes before verification on purpose: you can author the flow while a DNS record propagates, and only need the domain verified before the flow actually runs.
A free workspace includes 1 flow. Subscribing raises the limit to 5. That’s the same for every account, GitHub or email. 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.