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[SOLVED] Still can't sign up for Beehaw 😞🐝 (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[SOLVED] - Lemmy doesn't notify you if the username is taken and just hangs indefinitely if it is taken. Just an fyi to anybody else who's having issues signing up for a Lemmy instance.

Title says it all. I've tried multiple browsers, restarting, flushing dns and everything else I can think to troubleshoot this on my end. Whenever I try to sign up it just hangs infinitely on the page that I took a screenshot of, with the submit button spinning.

How can I join this side of lemmy? Lemmy.world is pretty good but I would like to be in an instance that is defederated from lemmygrad please lol

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What? You signed in today? https://beehaw.org/u/Dee

I am very confused.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's not me O_o

I guess somebody already took Dee on beehaw, I'll try again with another username but I didn't get any error that the username was taken already. Thank you for linking that, maybe it was that simple haha

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah yeah, Lemmy doesn't say when a username is taken..

Was that really the problem all along?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It seems to have gone through now 🤦‍♀️

That's a little frustrating (not your fault or any of the mods) I would really like to have that added to the roadmap for Lemmy in the future. The fun of alpha software lol

Thank you for taking the time to comment and help clear this up though. Is there an FAQ I missed that says there's no error for taken usernames?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

According to their Github issue tracker, they're aware and are working to fix it (based on the pull request)!

The lemmy software is still a bit rough. It can only get better though, we all just need a little patience (or to contribute if we're able) 😊

As far as I know, I don't believe there's an FAQ that explains these issues. I could be wrong though!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Thank you for the additional info from the links! But yeah, definitely some kinks in the software but I'm really enjoying it and the community that's gathered here. I'll definitely be contributing more soon! 😄

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It's been approved. Thank you for your patience.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I’m having a similar problem. Submitted to join ~1.5 days ago and see that the account is created (same username as this account). But when I try to login it just spins forever.

note: Pretty sure that the account had not been created when I submitted to join. I checked the user page and the user age matched the date/time of when I tried to create an account.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Could be you haven’t been approved yet. If you have it could be you need to wait for it to let you log in. Took me a day of waiting. Once it works it works.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I know someone who is experiencing this as well. I don't have an answer, but this may be an issue that affects multiple users

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Test out if the username exists by typing in the url to the profile.

https://beehaw.org/u/username

Also if you sign up the profile will exist before you are approved and can log in. And if you are rejected the user will forever be taken and not usable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Dang, we really need a better looking 404 page. And to not allow that sort of username enumeration.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've tried several times to create an account. Username meldroc.

When I fill out the form and click to submit, it gives me an eternal spinny, no feedback on whether anything's happening or if it's just stuck.

Try to login, only a spinny.

What am I doing wrong?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I just tried creating an account again, username meldroc42. Currently got the spinny...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'd try another username, idk if this is you but it looks like that one already exists. That's what was happening with me anyway.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Having the same issue, the user account appears to exist, but i made an account elsewhere.

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