Signing in with Telegram
How the Telegram sign-in works for your creator account, how to link or unlink a Telegram account, and why it stays available alongside your password.
A Subscriby creator account is email-first, and a Telegram account can be linked to it in two ways: start from Continue with Telegram on the sign-up page and the link is there from day one, or sign up with an email address and link Telegram later from Settings › Security › Linked accounts. Once linked, you can always sign in with Continue with Telegram as an alternative to your password or passkey.
This page covers how that Telegram sign-in path behaves, what data is shared, and what to do if something goes wrong. The connector-neutral picture, and how the same card links accounts on other connectors, is on Signing in with a connected platform.
Creator accounts only sign in through connectors. Google sign-in, magic-link sign-in, and similar paths are used on the member portal (your members' login page), not on the creator dashboard. See For Members → Portal if you're reading this as a member.
What Telegram sign-in does
When you click Continue with Telegram at /login:
- You authenticate with Telegram, not with Subscriby.
- Telegram sends us your public profile — first name, last name, username (if any), profile photo, and your unique Telegram user ID.
- We match that user ID to your existing creator account and sign you in.
- You stay signed in to Subscriby even if you later sign out of Telegram — the connection is only used at the moment of sign-in.
How to sign in with Telegram
At /login, click Continue with Telegram — the blue button above the email/password form.
The Telegram login widget appears. On mobile, you'll be asked to open the Telegram app and tap Confirm. On desktop, you can scan a QR code or confirm directly from your phone.
Telegram redirects you back to Subscriby. Because your Telegram user ID is already linked to your account, you're signed in immediately — no extra steps.
If 2FA is enabled on your account, you'll still be prompted for your authenticator code at /two-factor.
Why this is useful
No password to remember
If you forget your password or don't want to enter one on a shared device, Continue with Telegram is an instant alternative — no typing required.
Tied to Telegram user ID, not @username
If you change or remove your Telegram username later, your Subscriby link is unaffected. We match on the underlying numeric user ID, which Telegram never changes.
One account, three paths
Signing in with Telegram, email/password, or a passkey all land you on the same dashboard with the same data. Mix and match as convenient.
What data Telegram shares
Only the basics: first name, last name, username (if any), profile photo, and a unique Telegram user ID. Subscriby doesn't see messages, contacts, or anything else in your Telegram account.
Linking a Telegram account later
If you signed up with an email address, or unlinked Telegram at some point, you can link it from your dashboard:
Open Settings › Security and find the Linked accounts card. It lists every account already linked and offers a Link Telegram button while none is.
Press Link Telegram. The card shows a link into @TrySubscribyBot and an eight-character code, both valid for fifteen minutes.
From the Telegram account you want linked, open the link — or, if it does not open, send the code to the bot as a message. Do this from a private chat with the bot, not from a group.
The bot confirms the link and the card refreshes on its own. From now on Continue with Telegram signs you in, the bot can reach you with alerts, and you can manage your projects from it.
A Telegram account can be linked to one Subscriby account at a time. If the bot answers that the account already signs in to another account, unlink it there first, or use a different Telegram account.
Unlinking Telegram
Press Unlink next to the account in Settings › Security › Linked accounts and confirm. You keep your password and any passkeys, so nothing locks you out; what you lose until you link again is the Telegram side — Continue with Telegram no longer signs you in, and @TrySubscribyBot can no longer reach you or manage your projects. A backup Telegram account registered for Disaster Recovery is removed from the Disaster Recovery page, not from here.
If you have changed Telegram accounts entirely, use the relink flow in Disaster Recovery instead of unlinking and linking: it moves your projects and members over in one step and keeps an undo link. See Recovering your Telegram account.
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Related
- Signing in with a connected platform — the connector-neutral picture.
- Signing in — every creator sign-in method compared.
- If you can't sign in — what to do when none of the methods work.
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