A lot of us are in tech and we come across these problems and just troubleshoot our way around them and don’t really think about them, so I figured a “case study” might be helpful. Image unrelated.

Anyway, yesterday I tried making an alt account on lemmy.world. When last we left the situation, I had been notified that my registration application had been denied, but I’d been asked to confirm my email and https://lemmy.world/u/sergio had been created. A couple helpful commenters suggested my account might still be under review.

  • Today I tried logging in again. But when I entered my username and password, I got a popup that said “incorrect login credentials”. Maybe I needed to verify my email again? I went to my email, clicked the “verify your email” link, and just got a page with text that said “verify email” and nothing else. Maybe it didn’t like me using my username to log in? So I tried logging in with my EMAIL and my password, and still got that “incorrect login credentials”.
  • Maybe something’s wrong with my password? I’m using a password manager but OK, let’s just try changing my password. I clicked on the “forgot email” link on the login page. I entered my email address and clicked “reset password”… and nothing happens. No feedback, and I don’t get an email. (10 minutes so far).
  • maybe I should check https://lemmy.world/u/sergio ? Hey, that’s no longer there, I just get an error! I check the user page of another lemmy.world user and it works, so it’s not a server problem. Maybe my application really was denied? Was it really reviewed? What do I do now?

(my intuition is to try again with a different username, email address, computer, and browser from a different location at a different time of day…)

  • zephorah@lemm.eeEnglish
    61·
    1 day ago

    Option C: use the PC version to sign up and then use an easy mode Reddit-clone app, scroll the main feed and block all the communities you’re not interested in.

    • nuko147@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      1 day ago

      Didn’t have any problems with my lemm.ee account so far, and i can fetch all federal communities.

      What apps are there? I’m using Jerboa, and I’m very happy with it, but i want to know any alternatives.

        • nuko147@lemm.eeEnglish
          4·
          1 day ago

          Thank you. I didn’t know there are so many. Gonna try Alexandrite for my desktop, someone mentioned it before, but i thought it was only a web page.

          • JayGray91@kbin.earth
            3·
            1 day ago

            I personally like tesseract than alexandrite for desktop, although that’s not listed in that page I linked

            unfortunately the tesseract dev is calling it quits because of burning out with Lemmy development.

            it is a fork of photon either way, so when something broke if tesseract truly won’t be updated, I’ll probably use that instead

    • Sergio@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      1·
      1 day ago

      Yeah, I should have mentioned I’m using the default PC web interface. (If this was a real user experience study there’d be a section with the versions of everything used.)