Welcome to the Nomad Gate community!

[tkrunning (Thomas K. Running)]

Welcome to our community of location-independent individuals, perpetual travelers (PTs), digital nomads, remote workers and the like—helping each other out on our nomadic journeys.

Since you’re one of the first members in our community, you have the opportunity to influence how it develops. Let’s make it a great place to learn and help each other grow!

Preliminary topics/categories:

• Finances
• Travel
• Chat
• Minimalism (including “one-bagging”)
• Running a business
• Privacy
• Tech
• Gear
• VIP Lounge (non-public forum)
• Tax and legal
• Remote working
• Locations

If you think of anything else we should add, just let us know in Meta!

Rules:

• Introduce yourself
• Emojis encouraged
• No excessive self promoting
• No referral or affiliate links without permission
• Be helpful and constructive. Criticize ideas, not people 🙋🙆‍♂️
• Read the Community Guidelines

While I realize that everyone’s first language isn’t English, try to the best of your ability to spell correctly, use proper grammar, punctuation, capitalization, etc.

[anon39578702]

Hey Thomas, thanks for running (no pun intended) this place! For some reason the facility to change my email address is disabled.

[tkrunning (Thomas K. Running)]

Hey, yes that’s so your account on the forum and on the main Nomad Gate site will stay in sync. Just send me a PM if you’d like to change it and I’ll help you out

[anon39578702]

Thomas, I don’t quite get your logic here.

For one, most forums and sites allow the user to manually change his or her email address in case he or she is unable to access his or her old email. It’s a reasonable practice.

For two, yes, I see there is a register and log in function on the main Nomad Gate site, but the site doesn’t give me any reason or incentive why should I sign up there as well.

I see the incentive here, it’s an interactive forum, this is clear. But what about the main site? It’s a mystery.

[tkrunning (Thomas K. Running)]

Thanks for your feedback, I totally agree! However, let me try to explain again why it’s currently the way it is.

I see the incentive here, it’s an interactive forum, this is clear. But what about the main site? It’s a mystery.

The main site signup/login is primarily for the newsletter and you get access to a few different things on the main site as well (direct contact options, no more newsletter promos etc). It’s really one account (when registering here you’re also registered on the main site), but for now it’s technically two different ways of logging in.

As mentioned, the only reason you can’t change your email yourself is that I would have to make sure it’s also updated in the main database, and for now Discourse doesn’t offer a practical webhook for doing so.

For one, most forums and sites allow the user to manually change his or her email address in case he or she is unable to access his or her old email. It’s a reasonable practice.

Definitely! As mentioned, just PM me and I’ll update it for you

It’s my intention to better integrate the sites in the future, but that will probably involve migrating the main site from Github Pages to Firebase, and rewrite a bunch of stuff, and figuring out if I can somehow get Firebase working as SSO for Discourse. All of which takes time, which I don’t have at the moment.