Relax instance registrations to "Approval required for sign up" from current "Nobody can sign up"
I believe the current "Nobody can sign up" setting makes onboarding needlessly complex for both willing users and admins.
We can move the form interaction to the approval process proper -- people try to sign up and then we get notified and can contact them. This way we can track pending work in the Mastodon instance proper; I think it could be quite smooth.
This change would take effectively one minute :)
Thoughts?
Poll Created Sun 15 May 2022 2:17PM
Move to "Approval required" registrations mode Closed Fri 27 May 2022 2:00PM
See post above :)
Results
| Results | Option | % of points | Voters | |
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Agree | 40.9% | 9 |
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| Abstain | 4.5% | 1 |
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| Disagree | 45.5% | 10 |
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| Block | 9.1% | 2 |
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| Undecided | 0% | 138 |
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22 of 160 people have participated (13%)
Flancian
Sun 15 May 2022 2:17PM
I believe this would simplify the process, and we can negotiate with the prospective user any extra information or commitment during the approval process.
This was discussed last Friday in the [[social coop tech group]].
Nick Sellen
Sun 15 May 2022 2:18PM
I'm a bit hesitant to use such a strong vote here, but I think this is not really appropriate because:
the period is too short as @Neil - neilsocial.coop pointed out below <-- FIXED NOW
registrations are handled by the community working group, not the tech working group, so it's not within tech area of responsibility (see guidelines at https://social.coop/terms)
Zee Spencer
Sun 15 May 2022 2:18PM
I'm in favor; getting people into the system rather than "not" seems pretty valuable.
Nathan Schneider
Sun 15 May 2022 2:18PM
I am strongly in favor of a less friction-full registration process. So many times amazing friends have tried signing up and encountered annoying delays and confusion. I am glad to see this proposal.
Matt Noyes
Sun 15 May 2022 2:18PM
Needs to take into account the whole registration process and what info is needed.
alain
Sun 15 May 2022 2:18PM
Thank you for putting thought and energy improving the onboarding system. The way I see it, the registration by approval (sadly) doesn't reduce the manual work of registration though. And the social coop homepage is quite clear that we are open to registration.
If advertising our "openness" is really required, would it be possible to send the link to registration form when receiving a sign-up request?
Will Murphy
Sun 15 May 2022 2:18PM
I support this change, but only after CWG has discussed, approved, and made new onboarding procedures (changing from block to disagree as at least two CWG members have seen this and voted on it, they can block if they still think that is necessary)
Jerimiah Ham
Sun 15 May 2022 2:18PM
It sounds like this change is mainly intended to make our instance appear in public lists of mastodon instances that are accepting new members, and nothing else. This sounds good to me.
Josh Davis
Sun 15 May 2022 2:18PM
Flancian says, "I want to clarify that I started this thread and the proposal to gather feedback and get a quick pulse of what the community thinks+feels." That is a fine thing to do, but then it should be a discussion and not a vote. A proposal like this needs to be something that comes after a discussion, not before it. Starting with a solution is putting the cart before the horse.