[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

  • 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.