If it's OK (non-spammy) to ask, I'd be grateful if anyone could check the login screen at https://futurology.today/

freamon, 10 months ago

I registered and logged in, but it didn’t make it easy

After registering, it didn’t say anything about verifying the email. When I went to the Login screen, it just did nothing after pressing the ‘login’ button. After I went to my email and clicked the verification, it came up with a message ‘saying Email Verified’, and then it let me log in, to a screen that said ‘Verify Email’. Obviously, I just had to click on something like ‘Communities’ to see the main page, but it was a bit odd.

I’m using the Brave browser on an ancient MacBook Air, if that helps.

Lugh, 10 months ago

Thank you. This is very helpful. Someone else questioned why we are even using email verification as they said few other instances are using it.

We’d assumed it was important from the perspective of bots, trolling, spam, etc But it seems to be at the root of the problems we’ve been having.

freamon, 10 months ago

I don’t have a problem with email verification, 'cos I just don’t use my main email account for it. I’ve signed up to 3 instances previously, and 2 of required it fwiw.

But you’ll need something to deter bots, if only because other instances will defederate you if too much spam/trolling is coming from your site.

Little1Lost, 10 months ago

had the same problem and a feature request: old.futurology for the incoming reddit users could be a huge benefit (familiarity)
And maybe add those options (a. & old.) on the side panel with a link for tutorials how to use Lemmy and its apps (maybe make an entire page where you leave the link on the sidebar)
I think guidiance is partly still needed, especcially for people hopping on for a community and not the software

Lugh, 10 months ago

incoming reddit users could be a huge benefit (familiarity) And maybe add those options (a. & old.) on the side panel with a link for tutorials how to use Lemmy and its apps

Yes, I’ve been thinking about how to make it as simple as possible to understand for reddit users. Where we explained it here, is an attempt to reduce things to the simplest language - reddit.com/…/do_you_have_some_time_to_take_a_look…

Ecology8622, 10 months ago

Spammy and scammy tbh.

dorkian_gray, 10 months ago

If you’re being honest, perhaps you could share some of your reasons for saying so with the class? The request itself sounds pretty reasonable, and the tone is polite.

Ecology8622, 10 months ago

Who is Lough, the OP. Why not give some credentials pointing to the Reddit sub? Is he/she a mod? I don’t even have to explain this.

Lugh, 10 months ago

In fairness, I can see why the accusation of being spammy is justified. But to address the issue of scamminess - Although we don’t mention the site address yet, here’s it being talked about by the Mod Team on r/futurology

reddit.com/…/do_you_have_some_time_to_take_a_look…

Ecology8622, 10 months ago

Why didn’t you post this on the first place then? Why did someone need to question you and your intentions? Isn’t this common sense?

Little8Lost, 10 months ago

It is better when lemmy users who know the ground can test the server a bit before it gets DDOSed with some reddit users who dont know anything and get raged

Like an beta and alpha phase for finding bugs and testing as much as possible out before the offendable users get confronted with it