non-stickied PSA: we are finally beginning to work through our application backlog, and everyone in it should eventually be cleared (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by alyaza@beehaw.org to c/support@beehaw.org

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...unfortunately this'll take awhile. it's still about 4,780 as of writing. but that's down probably 1,000 from its peak! we finally have a hacky system to handle denials, so that's really helping here.

we also missed a bunch of cool people, who we're approving too.

we can now, finally, say that if you register, your judgement (whether approve/deny) should come down within 24-48 hours, although the deny email might take longer than that depending on circumstances.

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[-] nlm@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

Good job!

You guys really did get your hands full didn't you?

[-] Rentlar@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

That's a hell of a lot of applications to go through! Take your time as you need and don't feel too pressured by the sheer volume of applications.

[-] alyaza@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

a lot of them in fairness are easy denies, and that alone makes it pretty easy to do them in batches of 100 or so. i think i've cut down the total number by about 100 from posting so far

[-] aka_oscar@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

If its not too nosy to ask: What do most denied requests look like? Like, did they not answer the question or were they being dicks?

[-] alyaza@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

mostly the first, very occasionally the second; we ask them to reapply. unfortunately now we have a whole other problem which precludes us from currently sending any emails, so uh lol

[-] Kernel@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Encouraging progress. Though I'd suspect that clearing the backlog alone may not resolve the problem some users have had with a perpetually stalled signup attempt.