First, sorry if this isn’t the right place for this.

I’ve got an account on sh.itjust.works, but I’d like to make one here since most of the communities I’m into are here.

Problem is, once I hit the “Sign Up” button it just spins indefinitely. I let it sit for a while once, no change, then tried to log in, once again nothing.

Is there some missing requirement I’m not meeting or something? Or is this just a result of the exodus of people from Reddit to here? If so that’s fine, I’ll just wait. But I want to see if this is something on my end or not.

  • TeaHands@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    Sorry I know this doesn’t answer your question, but just wanted to make sure you know you can sub to communities here from your current account, right?

    • xontinuity@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Yes, I do. But thanks for checking! I’d like to make an account here just because many of the communities I’m into are here.

      • PriorProject@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        I’d like to make an account here just because many of the communities I’m into are here.

        Not to keep hammering a moot point, but why? Subscribing to remote communities is totally normal. I sub to more communities on lemmy.ml than probably any other single server (though I sub to communities on lots of other instances too), but I wouldn’t want my account there because it’s overcrowded. It seems that there’s little reason to colocate your account with the communities you sub, and very good reason not to keep adding accounts to the biggest servers until they fall over.

        • xontinuity@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Well simply, for me it’s just really janky to have to look at a community here, then subscribe to it from another instance in order to interact with it. There’s nothing wrong with it, but I just would rather have an account here, where the majority of communities I’m subscribed to are. Seems a little simpler.

    • TerevosEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Yes but can you create communities in other instances?

      • TeaHands@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Not directly, although it only matters if your home instance has community creation turned off (I think yours does, right?)

        Can always just give someone from the target instance a shout to set one up for you though which basically ends up being the same thing.

  • Slashzero@hakbox.socialEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Nope. There are just a lot of issues around signup and login (see GitHub issue list for lemmy-ui project).

    Even though you are seeing the spinner of doom, it’s possible your registration went through, even if you didn’t get an email.

    Try to log in and see if it works.

    By the way, long passwords, like the “strong passwords” generated by browsers in iOS will result in an invalid user and you won’t be able to log in until you reset your password to something shorter without any - characters in it.

    Try the to reset your password via the forgot password link. Put the email you used to signup into the user field and click Forgot Password.

    At least you still have your sh user so you can interact with the communities on lemmy.world.

    Good luck!

    • xontinuity@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I’ll give it a shot. Logging in gave me the same thing and the “Forgot Password” isn’t working (for me right now)… but I’ll try again later tonight, hopefully less traffic then. Thanks for the answer!