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There's a glaring bug in the lemmy dot zip sign up process (via web at least). There's clearly some sort of backend validation of usernames, but it's a mysterious black box with no helpful feedback to end users.
Presumably there are forbidden characters, character limits (min/max), banned word/phrase filters, etc and I assume there's a check to make sure the name isn't already registered. But the only feedback provided is a server-side message "InvalidName" that shows up in a pop-up. That's all the info given, and I even checked the http responses directly to see if they contained any more info. Nope.
After numerous attempts and variations of usernames that I wanted with no luck, I tried InvalidName, and still no luck. So then I tried InvalidName2 and that finally worked.
So, yes bugs and glaringly obvious UI/UX issues are par for the course with the Fediverse, but at least this instance hasn't been shut down or suffered weeks-long outages since I joined, at least not yet.