[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

    • Lemdee@lemmy.worldOP
      9·
      1 year ago

      That’s not me O_o

      I guess somebody already took Dee on beehaw, I’ll try again with another username but I didn’t get any error that the username was taken already. Thank you for linking that, maybe it was that simple haha

        • Lemdee@lemmy.worldOP
          5·
          1 year ago

          It seems to have gone through now 🤦‍♀️

          That’s a little frustrating (not your fault or any of the mods) I would really like to have that added to the roadmap for Lemmy in the future. The fun of alpha software lol

          Thank you for taking the time to comment and help clear this up though. Is there an FAQ I missed that says there’s no error for taken usernames?

  • gummi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I’m having a similar problem. Submitted to join ~1.5 days ago and see that the account is created (same username as this account). But when I try to login it just spins forever.

    • Cipher@beehaw.orgEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I know someone who is experiencing this as well. I don’t have an answer, but this may be an issue that affects multiple users

  • Meldroc@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 year ago

    I’ve tried several times to create an account. Username meldroc.

    When I fill out the form and click to submit, it gives me an eternal spinny, no feedback on whether anything’s happening or if it’s just stuck.

    Try to login, only a spinny.

    What am I doing wrong?

    • Dee@beehaw.org
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’d try another username, idk if this is you but it looks like that one already exists. That’s what was happening with me anyway.

  • answers_to_kv@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    I am having a similar issue. Used the same name as this (answers_to_kv). I saw that my username exists and the account was created yesterday (the day I made it) but I am unable to log in :/ any advice?

    • MoodyCat@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      Yeah same. I looked up my username and it was created the same day I created it. Tried logging and can’t progress past the loading icon.

      • Lionir [he/him]@beehaw.orgM
        3·
        1 year ago

        Lemmy creates the account before being approved - it is quite silly. If you can give me the username, I can give it a look, we’re currently going through all the backlog for people we missed.

    • _chelsea_@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      1·
      1 year ago

      Likewise here – set up a username with this same username, checking the user page shows it created on the same day I set it up, and just get stuck with a spinning icon when trying to log in. Frustrating. Worse, I got that spinner so bad when trying to sign up that I don’t know if it actually created the account with the first time I clicked to register (and never went through), or the first time it actually went through, much later in the day. I was using a password manager and I have no clue what that first attempt might have had. Even worse, I decided not to try it with an e-mail in the form, as that wasn’t necessary and the one I’d tried to submit with an email address also gave me the spinning icon, so I have no way to re-set the password if it’s the first option.

    • doc@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      Same. Made an account there Saturday, after checking for another user with the same name. For a 404 error, tried to sign up, and got stuck with a spinner when trying to log in.

      • Lionir [he/him]@beehaw.orgM
        1·
        1 year ago

        Lemmy creates the account before being approved - it is quite silly. If you can give me the username, I can give it a look, we’re currently going through all the backlog for people we missed.

  • Los@beehaw.org
    2·
    1 year ago

    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.

      • Los@beehaw.org
        1·
        1 year ago

        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.

  • ttzera@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    I’ve been having the same issue. It goes on loading state forever and no feedback. Tried multiple usernames and none of them have been taken, so that isn’t the problem.

  • beedog@beehaw.org
    1·
    1 year ago

    First post, thanks for this thread. I tried signing up using mobile browser, but the button was spinning forever. Checking the user page helped confirm that it was not created, so I switched to sign up with desktop browser and got a “Application accepted” message, then the user page was created!