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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Did they select a language? Mine did the same thing on various instances. I tried a few things at the same time, so I don’t know what finally let me register, but I learned a few things in the process.
For example, the most likely explanation is that the username is already taken. The back end fails silently when that happens, and there’s already a bug open in GitHub. I figured I’d try a shorter password and selecting a language, and that worked.
Hopefully that helps your friends.
I had the spinning wheel issue when trying to sign up at midwest.social this morning. I left it for an hour and it was still spinning so I copied my answer, closed the tab, and reapplied. After 3 attempts it went through instantly. YMMV with other instances though ¯\(ツ)/¯
I hope it didn’t send multiple requests but considering I applied to Beehaw.org a week ago and left it spinning all day and never got a confirmation email, I assume it didn’t.
Upvoted for throbbing indefinitely
lemmy.ml closed registrations. As for lemmy.world, it’s probably overloaded. The point of the fediverse is to spread out the userbase to reduce the power of any single instance, try to register on a smaller instance.
There are three things wrong here:
- These are the top instances in most (Hey Join Lemmy) documents and evangelism posts.
- There’s no indication that registration is currently closed on any of these instances.
- “Choose a smaller instance” is not a replacement for load balancing. When it comes to selection a new user will not want to tie their account, subscriptions, history, and overall experience to “Joe Bob’s” instance.
