# Why do I need to authenticate 3 different ways to use the Circle ecosystem?

**URL:** <https://discuss.circleci.com/t/why-do-i-need-to-authenticate-3-different-ways-to-use-the-circle-ecosystem/35470>\
**Category:** Bug Reports\
**Created:** [April 15, 2020, 2:22pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/why-do-i-need-to-authenticate-3-different-ways-to-use-the-circle-ecosystem/35470 "2020-04-15T14:22:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![davetrollope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/db5fbb/32.png) [@davetrollope](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/davetrollope)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2020, 2:22pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/why-do-i-need-to-authenticate-3-different-ways-to-use-the-circle-ecosystem/35470/1 "2020-04-15T14:22:10Z")

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Circle the product allows me to auth with bitbucket  
Discuss only allows github or email  
Support I have to use Google

Can I get a single authentication mechanism to use this ecosystem please? Its frustrating to have to use 3 different accounts to use the product, get support and contribute product feedback

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**Author:** ![angelisa](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/circleci/user_avatar/discuss.circleci.com/angelisa/32/22776_2.png) [@angelisa](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/angelisa)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2020, 3:26pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/why-do-i-need-to-authenticate-3-different-ways-to-use-the-circle-ecosystem/35470/2 "2020-04-15T15:26:50Z")

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Hi @davetrollope welcome to the CircleCI community! We currently use Discourse for the CircleCI Discuss forum and Zendesk for Support tickets, which requires different logins. I’ve created a feature request for you to have [one authentication method for the CircleCI ecosystem](https://ideas.circleci.com/ideas/CCI-I-1484), which you can comment on for our PMs to review.