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.
It wasn’t bad, but in my opinion they need to figure out how to make the process a tad faster. Took them two days for mine. Granted, I know it’s a small operation so I get it, but based on their documentation I figured something went wrong and so I attempted to submit a second registration (which hopefully didn’t go through since I also had an issue where the submit button for both login and registration would spin endlessly).
Growing pains is all it probably is.
the main issues preventing us from doing this faster are like 90% infrastructural and out of our hands–the tools aren’t great and we got kicked off of our original mail provider, reinstated, then kicked off again for reasons which aren’t clear to us. our new one has rate limits and is uh, opaque to say the least. we also had to custom-script a denial email so you’d even get one (that’s a feature lemmy doesn’t have) if we denied your application.
this is all Lemmy. the lack of feedback on basically everything is infuriating but the main devs are slammed so i doubt it’ll get better any time soon
Not on Beehaw, but let me just say that I appreciate you. People aren’t used to dealing with an all volunteer admin… we’d all do well to remember that this is all done out of a love for the community.
I appreciate you being active here, answering questions and checking people’s account status. I’m sure you all are slammed!
Thank you for the explanation! Definitely growing pains of this platform for sure. I appreciate what you’re able to do and not do and appreciate your frustration.