Lemdee

Still can't sign up for Beehaw 😞🐝

https://lemmy.world/post/139832

Still can't sign up for Beehaw 😞🐝 - Lemmy.world

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

Jun 14, 2023 at 11:33pmWeb
Show threadLionir [he/him]Jun 14, 2023

What? You signed in today? https://beehaw.org/u/Dee

I am very confused.

Show threadLemdeeJun 14, 2023

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

Show threadLionir [he/him]Jun 14, 2023

Ah yeah, Lemmy doesn't say when a username is taken..

Was that really the problem all along?

Show threadLemdeeJun 14, 2023

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?

Show threadLionir [he/him]Jun 14, 2023
It's been approved. Thank you for your patience.
Show threadDeeJun 15, 2023

Thank you very much!

Now to catch up with my lemmy.world account in comments and submissions.

Show threadLionir [he/him]Jun 15, 2023
is that the new karma
Show threadgummiJun 15, 2023
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.
Show threadCipherJun 15, 2023
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
Show threadLosJun 15, 2023
Could be you haven’t been approved yet. If you have it could be you need to wait for it to let you log in. Took me a day of waiting. Once it works it works.
Show threadLosJun 15, 2023

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.

Show threadtotallynotsocsaJun 15, 2023
It would be very nice if there was a process to reclaim these users at some point.
Show threadLosJun 15, 2023
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.
Show threadPenguinCoderJun 15, 2023
Dang, we really need a better looking 404 page. And to not allow that sort of username enumeration.
Show threadHalfEatenRatJun 15, 2023
No kidding. Tried a few times to create an account. Even wrote in my 9 year old reddit account as proof that I am not a bot, no luck. Kinda given up at this point.
Show threadLionir [he/him]Jun 17, 2023
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.
Show threadflusteredJun 15, 2023
Having the similar issues, the user account appears to exist, but when spins when i try to logon.
Show threadLionir [he/him]Jun 17, 2023
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.
Show threadanswers_to_kvJun 15, 2023
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?
Show threadMoodyCatJun 15, 2023
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.
Show threadLionir [he/him]Jun 17, 2023
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.
Show threadMoodyCatJun 19, 2023
@Lionir
Ahh I see, no worries! The username should be:
MoodyCat
Show threaddocJun 15, 2023
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.
Show threadLionir [he/him]Jun 17, 2023
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.
Show thread_chelsea_Jun 15, 2023
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.
Show threadLionir [he/him]Jun 17, 2023
I found it - It should be good now. You were approved.