ย [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
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.
It would be very nice if there was a process to reclaim these users at some point.
Dang, we really need a better looking 404 page. And to not allow that sort of username enumeration.