Welcome to ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ iD
| 20:01 UK time, Friday, 30 October 2009
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ iD is the new sign in system for ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Online. Its currently being rolled out across all services that require a user to register or sign in.
On Monday November 2nd we'll be switching all of the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖs blogs to ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ iD from the previous ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ membership system. And in the New Year our message boards and other communities will be heading down the same route.
By March 2010 ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ iD will be the single sign in for all ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Online services. If you have an existing ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ membership account for blogs, message boards or other services at some point in the next few months you will be automatically prompted to upgrade to ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ iD.
We do need to replace the old system, but we don't underestimate the inconvenience the transition will represent for some of our users. We apologise for this and hope that you will find the service improvements that ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ iD will support over the coming months for example, working on mobiles - make it all worthwhile.
We've tried to answer the questions you may have about the new system here.
If we've missed anything, please let us know. Most users should be able to upgrade their account from a ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ membership to a ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ iD when prompted with a minimum of fuss.
Well be keeping you up to date with the roll-out of ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ iD via the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Internet blog. We're also using the Internet blog as a early test of the new system so please do leave a comment below.
NB: There's one thing you will need to think about if you have more than one ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ membership account.:
If you have more than one ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ membership you'll only be able to upgrade one of those accounts to ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ iD using your preferred username and email address. That ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ iD account will retain links to your previous membership account and any comments and posts you made using it. So if you have more than one ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ membership, make sure you upgrade your favourite one.
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