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Email account verification requirement turned off (ttrpg.network)
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FYI, i've been seeing some complaints about emails not showing up or taking a long time, so in order to not hinder new sign ups, i went ahead and suspended email verification for now. I might look at turning it back on later, but for now I wanted the user on boarding experience to go better.

This means that you should, after setting up your account, add an email to it, just to make sure you have the ability to recover your account at a later date.

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[–] dwgill@ttrpg.network 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

While I appreciate the change as it allows me to actually login, there's been a lot of issues with spam accounts reported at a lot of Lemmy and kbin instances. For example: https://mstdn.social/@stux/110582137637837383

Huh. In the list with "fastest growing #Lemmy instances" are only spam instances now

I'm currently creating an instance ban list for Geddit to block those instances if they don't take action.. This is a disaster waiting to happen

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Lemmy ‘total users’ has now reached the million..

That’s ~200K new spam accounts in the past hours or so 🙀

All to say, anything you can do to fix the email issue and get email verification back on would be appreciated 🙏

[–] eerongal@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 year ago

yeah, i'm aware of it. The captcha settings are still enabled, and realistically, an email address is probably not a huge bar for bots to overcome these days. That said, i would prefer to get it back online sooner than later. I've been talking the hosting service trying to figure it out.