Is the Lemmy sign-up just broken for most instances (self.asklemmy)

submitted 1 year ago by wreel to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I'm getting a lot of comments from friends that they can't make an account. I went to make test accounts on both lemmy.ml and lemmy.world and both are throbbing indefinitely (didn't see any network traffic either).

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[-] jmay@feddiverse.org 2 points 1 year ago

They will do that if the username and/or email address is already taken. I've seen it on my own instance. There are possibly other reasons as well.

[-] wreel 2 points 1 year ago

If that's the case and it's just a bug that there's not feedback on the sign-up page then that's cool. Probably need to track an issue for that. But right now the new user is experience is pretty bad for even technically literate people.

[-] jmay@feddiverse.org 2 points 1 year ago

I agree. I've submitted a bug report already about the username/email address issue.

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