Member

A person with a registered account in the Elonn identity system. Members are the human actors across all services. The API service is the single authority for membership.

Allowed:

• member directory
• member count
• invite a member
• member_id (alias for identity_user_id in external-facing contexts)

Forbidden:

• user (deprecated; internal DB column only)
• account (UI copy for the login surface only; not a domain noun)
• person, human, individual (too generic)

Notes:

• Internally, the database column is identity_user_id. External API responses expose member_id or reference the member via their identity_user_id. Do not expose identity_user as a product term.
• A member always has one profile per social service instance.

Related:

• profile
• identity
• token
• session (auth session)