How about adding a captcha? I was surprised there was none when I signed up.

I ran into the issue on my instance as well, but checking the Captcha option in admin settings, stopped the signups for me.

can't have anything nice nowadays

I love how transparent you are with the management of this instance. Kudos!

Sounds frustrating. Thanks for doing what you do and letting us join your server! Hope the captcha works out.

Becareful with this. There's a clear trend of massive amount of bot accounts flooding lemmy as a whole

Those usernames are so unimaginative. Who would pick a name like that?

Last time a website I was managing was bombarded with spam signups, I set up a regular expression to check for the incredibly distinctive format the spammers were using... then it reports success but doesn't actually create the account or send an email. Spam problem over.

I solved this problem once. What you do is have a custom captcha that you code yourself. It can be as simple as "What is 2+3?" and have 10-20 questions that you rotate between. Most spammers will be too lazy to update their spambot.

I've run into this issue with some of my servers in the past and it's a real PITA to deal with because not only do you have to mitigate the issue, but then you have to make requests to get de-blacklisted, etc. I finally got sick of it all and installed a Barracuda spam firewall in front of the mail server. I have MUCH easier control over IMAP/SMTP now.

Thanks for staying on top of things! Really appreciate your efforts!

User on kbin here, just tried to sign up to lemmy.world.. looks like everything crashed and burned when tried to sign up there.

I was trying to open my account just when lemmy.world was closed earlier. When I pressed the button to create it I only got and enless "charging" animation. But when it reopened, I just started the process again, and was as easy as a breeze and extremely fast. Glad to be here! (and this is my first post)

I am from Lemmy Canada. I have noticed that when I come to a community hosted on Lemmy World I am often signed out. Do I need to sign up here to participate?

OK that makes sense, I was trying to sign up and couldn't figure out why everything was timing out. Sorry if my attempts looked like spam.

edit: it still doesn't work for me btw

I got in just in time! For the record, the sign up date seems to be broken. My account is less than a day old and it says I've been here since the 14th. Unless maybe it counts cookies or something?

Lucky me, I guess, since I use a masked email address that looks fake too (anon addy). I really dislike to give my email address when testing Reddit alternatives.

Make sure you use a strong password for accounts

The spam battles are heating up!

Thank you for working to get signups working once more!

Wow that was quick, amazing job as always!

Wanna recruit a helper who promises nothing but benevolent assistance?

Same on Geddit.social

Also fixed now!

FYI looks like registration still doesn't work - send button spinning, no request in ff network monitor. Tried ff & chrome, gmail and proton. I went with a different server eventually, but you might wanna do something in case this is not intentional