About two days ago we found a bug with the registration system on lemmy. Because of this we have updated our registration process a few times, and cannot deny any applications as the person registering does not receive any message and cannot re-apply.

We currently have several hundred people that we are waiting to deny, and some unknown amount of people that we denied prior to finding this issue which we would really like to contact and give them a chance to register as they didn’t write enough in their registration for us to really evaluate if they were a good fit for this instance.

If you’re a developer please take a look at this github issue and please work your magic to help fix this problem.

As an aside, we also have a list we’ve been working on for enhancements that would make moderating and administering this instance a lot easier, and enhancements we think users would enjoy in terms of UI and UX. We’d love to share these as well as facilitate a discussion to surface more ideas (and we plan to in the future), but right now we need to focus on the most pressing issue to us running this website, whether people can create an account here and participate.

  • Gaywallet (they/it)@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    We want them to fit in with our philosophy, so we’re looking that they paid attention to our rule, our ethos, and our ambiance. To be clear, we’re not making judgements, but if you leave it blank or only talk about federation, we can’t be certain that you will vibe with how we moderate and what we’re trying to do here.

    • SorteKanin@feddit.dkEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Hey, sorry to bother you again but I have a follow-up question. Maybe feel free to ping someone else that might be able to answer.

      How do you deal with users just signing up somewhere else and then interacting on beehaw anyway? I mean isn’t that effectively just circumventing the application process?

      • Gaywallet (they/it)@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Probably most people interacting in our space are doing so through this method. It’s something we have always paid attention to. In the long, long run we will likely have to do something about it.

        Practically speaking we will likely have less tolerance for users like this who misbehave and we may have less discussions with them and simply ban and remove their content quicker.

        • SorteKanin@feddit.dkEnglish
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          1 year ago

          In the long, long run we will likely have to do something about it.

          Do you have any solutions in mind? I’ve been trying to think of something but nothing quite feels right.

          Maybe having a setting like “Allow federated users to post” that you could disable, and then users from outside the instance can only comment, not post. That would at least cater the discussion somewhat to what the instance wants to talk about. It still feels very restricting though.