There are different opinions on Beehaw’s registration process. I kind of see how some people would find it dissuasive, specially after most of us are coming from Reddit. But I still think it’s very practical, at least for the time being.
Btw, this is only my opinion as a new user, I don’t know any of the admins/mods. Link to my original comment.
Honestly, I was more frustrated with the spinner of doom that kept me from actually submitting my registration for a few days. That meant re-writing my response to that application question until I decided to just save it in notepad until I was able to get a registration form actually submitted.
The “interview” process itself makes total sense, and I’m happy to have even something so simple that helps keep some of the low-effort riff-raff out.
Same happened to me. It’s mainly caused by a bug in Lemmy itself, so I’m sure this issue will get fixed at some point. It might definitely scare people off the fediverse.
I completely agree with the three questions for screening. It only took me a few minutes to answer after reading the guidelines. It looks like people are making a bigger fuzz out of this than it really is.
Yeah, happened to me too lol. But that’s mostly the software/server’s fault rather than Beehaw’s admins. I hope they improve that in the future, specially for new non-technical users.
Oh, yeah absolutely not placing that on the Beehaw admin’s, I figured it was just a quirk of a younger system here and felt like this place was worth the extra work to get in, whether that was just a short question to answer or a couple days of troubleshooting a technical issue.
So far, so good!
I managed to submit mine, but then I tried to log in later and got the spinning wheel. I thought that was some sort of time-out, so I tried a few more times, then gave up. It wasn’t until later I was on a different server and people were talking about that spinning wheel and realized it prpbably just meant they hadnt gotten to approving me yet. I waited a few days and was let in.
I didn’t put my email address in, though, because it was “optional”, and then afterwards realized that was dumb, because they have no way of telling me I was approved. Oh well.
I don’t see the problem with having a requirement that someone who wants to join a discussion forum actually be able to write a few coherent sentences first.
Yeah… I feel like the registration process is a made worse experience overall because of the software bugs/limitations rather than Beehaw’s reasonable requirements. I hope the software will improve over time