We’ve updated the Lemmy software and have enabled Open Registrations. Let us know if there are any bugs. We noticed we get a lot of signups and approve a lot of people, but not a lot of people log in afterwards. Hopefully this will fix that issue, but if we notice too many problems’ manual approvals might come back.
It’s not to help the people already registered to log in. We think one of the reasons people never log in is because of the current approval process where someone has to wait a while before fully being approved. Especially since we don’t have an email server or any other way of letting people know their accounts have been approved. With this system, they can log right in after successful signup…