There are different opinions on Beehaw’s registration process. I kind of see how some people would find it dissuasive, specially after most of us are coming from Reddit. But I still think it’s very practical, at least for the time being.
Btw, this is only my opinion as a new user, I don’t know any of the admins/mods. Link to my original comment.
Hot take: its a bigger impact on those with anxiety disorders or other tendencies to rewrite things a million times when they are “important”. I find it easy to post online because its cheap, but writing my beehaw paragraph definitely stirred up some “eeeek, I gotta say this right!!!” fears in me.
As a fellow comrade of anxiety, I personally didn’t find it too daunting.
I just wrote something like “seems like our community/social values align! I’d like to contribute to discussions and share my knowledge, if that’s the case” and got approval within hours.
Then again, doing anything with anxiety can be exhausting. In this case, I think my desperation for something to replace my lost support communities won out over my anxiety.
I think it may have taken me a bit longer to write than most people bc English is not my first language and I tend to double and triple-check everything. But I think it was worth it, and it’s for the greater good - lessening the work of the admins
Hi I definitely didn’t take 20 minutes to write and incessantly edit 3-4 sentences.
Yeah, I definitely did feel like it was an “interview” and if I answered wrong I wouldn’t get in. I still get the spinning wheel, but I’ll check back tomorrow. I’ve read in a few places now that a lot of accounts have been approved but are essentially in a queue. It should hopefully be caught up soon.
I mean, I feel like I’d get significantly more nervous in an actual interview… I think the admins were having some trouble approving new accounts, hopefully they’ll have resolved it by now.