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[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
Dang, we really need a better looking 404 page. And to not allow that sort of username enumeration.
It would be very nice if there was a process to reclaim these users at some point.
I agreed. Though in the GitHub issue some people like the usernames still being occupied by ghost accounts. So we have to wait and see.