2026-08-16

🚀 Sign up with Google or Microsoft

Until now, the Google and Microsoft buttons could only sign you in to an account that already existed — they could not create one, so every account started life as an email address and a password. Now you can start from the identity you already have.

On the signup page, Sign up with Google and Sign up with Microsoft create your DevStride account without you ever setting a DevStride password. From there you carry on exactly as a password signup does: joining the organization you were invited to, requesting access to one your colleagues have already created, or naming a new one of your own.

• Your name comes across, so you land on a profile that is filled in rather than blank. Your picture does too, when your provider shares one.
• Already have a DevStride account with that email? You are linked to it and signed in. No duplicate account, no second identity to keep track of.
• Invited before you signed up? Your pending invitation is claimed by the same email, so you arrive already a member rather than starting from scratch. (Following the invitation link itself still asks for a password — that page is tied to one address on purpose. Use the ordinary signup page with the same email to sign up with a provider instead.)
• The buttons wait for your agreement. They stay greyed out until you have accepted the terms of use and privacy policy — choosing a provider sends you straight to them, so your agreement is recorded before you leave.
• Only configured providers appear. If your provider has no button, sign up with an email address and password.

📚 Creating your account

What it needs from your provider

DevStride requires a deliverable email address on every account: it is where your notifications go, and it is how your account is matched to invitations and to your organization.

So signing up with a provider goes ahead only when that provider tells us your email address. Most accounts share it automatically; some — particularly guest accounts belonging to another company's directory — do not. When yours does not, signup stops and points you at email-and-password signup instead, rather than creating an account that cannot receive anything.

Enterprise identity providers are not available on the signup page. Joining an organization that uses enterprise SSO still happens by invitation or through that organization's own provider, so a company's membership stays governed by the company.

📚 Enterprise SSO

🛠 Fixes

• Organizations without a billing subscription no longer generate repeated background failures when members are added or changed. Membership updates on those organizations were being retried and eventually parked instead of being recognised as having nothing to bill, which produced recurring noise with no useful signal in it. They are now handled cleanly the first time.