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We've grown an absolute shit ton of people the past day, insanely nuts to see how active World is. (lemmy.world)

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

I think we're trusting them to crunch the numbers and simply shut off registration if it gets out of control. At least, I'd hope so.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That wouldn't be good either if third parties are still funnelling new users to lemmy.world. They'll see a "sign ups closed" message, assume there is only one forum and it's closed, then go back to Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Actually it's even worse than that. I tried yesterday to register on https://lemmy.ml but it let me go through the registration process up to the submit button before returning an error message "Registration Closed".

It's very annoying to have closed registration in the first place.
When registration is closed the registration form should definitely not be present and let me fill the whole form.
The error message should not just say "Registration Closed", there should be some indication of where else I should go to register.

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

This is good feedback! If you haven't already, you might post it to [email protected]. They may have already gotten this feedback, so you might do a quick skim of other posts before doing so, but honestly it'd be good to post just with this point specifically, since others may have only tossed it in amidst more general feedback.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

A necessary evil but one that can be overcome. I would hope there'd be a way to leave a message about trying one of many other instances or at least a link to a Fediverse FAQ.