How do you feel about the massive influx of users?
this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2023
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I first tried signing up on lemmy.ml, that was impossible. Various hours of trying just got me the "click the signup button and it starts rotating and... nothing"
Then I went to lemmy.ca, there signup worked, but sign in at times gives the same "button rotating" thing and then nothing. Try again, and it works.
Its a minor issue, but a very visible one that I would say should be fixed ASAP because its the first thing new people see and you don't want the first experience to be tiresome.
The infinitely rotating button happens if their email settings are invalid- just discovered that on my instance. I have mine set to open but require email validation and everything seems to happen instantly, but if they require admin verification it may be bugging out and not telling you.
It's because there is some approval process involved I think to avoid bot/troll accounts. I join lemmy.ca cause I live in Canada. :D
That's fine that they have an approval process, but then the user interaction should be different. IT should immediately say that my request is under review and they'll get back to me asap or something, instead of a "this process is frozen" indication