The site is for a reddit subreddit ( r/futurology) making its fediverse migration. We're almost ready to launch, but some people seem to have trouble registering & logging in. Obviously we want to understand why before we open it up.

If anyone wants to help and has a few moments it would be great if you could test joining. If successful, leave a post/comment in the site's meta section. If not, could you leave a comment here, with a description of the problem and any error message. The developer has asked if you have problems with the site, could you try logging in a second time here - https://a.futurology.today/ (it will better track error messages).

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[–] freamon@endlesstalk.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I registered and logged in, but it didn't make it easy

After registering, it didn't say anything about verifying the email. When I went to the Login screen, it just did nothing after pressing the 'login' button. After I went to my email and clicked the verification, it came up with a message 'saying Email Verified', and then it let me log in, to a screen that said 'Verify Email'. Obviously, I just had to click on something like 'Communities' to see the main page, but it was a bit odd.

I'm using the Brave browser on an ancient MacBook Air, if that helps.

[–] Lugh@futurology.today 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thank you. This is very helpful. Someone else questioned why we are even using email verification as they said few other instances are using it.

We'd assumed it was important from the perspective of bots, trolling, spam, etc But it seems to be at the root of the problems we've been having.

[–] freamon@endlesstalk.org 6 points 1 year ago

I don't have a problem with email verification, 'cos I just don't use my main email account for it. I've signed up to 3 instances previously, and 2 of required it fwiw.

But you'll need something to deter bots, if only because other instances will defederate you if too much spam/trolling is coming from your site.

[–] Little1Lost@futurology.today 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

had the same problem and a feature request: old.futurology for the incoming reddit users could be a huge benefit (familiarity)
And maybe add those options (a. & old.) on the side panel with a link for tutorials how to use Lemmy and its apps (maybe make an entire page where you leave the link on the sidebar)
I think guidiance is partly still needed, especcially for people hopping on for a community and not the software

[–] Lugh@futurology.today 2 points 1 year ago

incoming reddit users could be a huge benefit (familiarity) And maybe add those options (a. & old.) on the side panel with a link for tutorials how to use Lemmy and its apps

Yes, I've been thinking about how to make it as simple as possible to understand for reddit users. Where we explained it here, is an attempt to reduce things to the simplest language - https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/15pbknv/do_you_have_some_time_to_take_a_look_at/