okay, so to quickly summarize since we've now got a pretty good idea of what's going on:

• all future approvals, if you provide an email in your registration, should get an email approval now. it should show up in your Gmail with no issues. this was on our end because of some configurations we didn't make before now, and we fixed it. go us!
• however: we are kind of shit out of luck with denial emails. Lemmy doesn't send these at all--it is literally not a feature--and we can't do anything about that. apparently you're supposed to be able to log in and get a denial reason but as far as we can tell that does not universally work, meaning some people are unambiguously fucked. we've opened a bug report covering this.

so yeah. that kind of fucks with what we were doing, and i don't know what the best way moving forward is going to be here.

i will once again reiterate that if you want to be allowed into the community while this is all the case, please answer the questions in full when you go to register, and please understand we are not super interested in people who just want to replace Reddit with something else or have been directed here and don't engage with the sidebar or philosophy we're going for.

I love the transparency here, thank you.

I was accepted in the last 24 hours and received no email. This post had me check to see if I could log in, success!

Just out of curiosity, are y'all also assuming there's a notification sent out on approvals? Because I definitely waited a bit to see if there was a message indicating if I'd been accepted or not and then just decided to try logging in to see what happened and nothing ever popped up.