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If you're trying to sign up for calckey.social, you may have noticed there's a notice saying that registrations are disabled *above* the registration form. This notice is not accurate.

It is actually a bug, and I've filed it as one in the repo:

codeberg.org/calckey/calckey/i

If you want to join calckey.social, *ignore* that notice and continue with your registration.

Here's a screenshot of the bug in question.

See also: calckey.social/notes/9eegkseedn

@fediversenews

@atomicpoet @fediversenews That is the least of calckey’s page problems.

If that landing page were my first or worse — sole — introduction to the fediverse, I would go running back to twitter even with all its ugliness. That has to the be the most frustrating page I’ve seen in a decade.

I don’t know what calckey is. BUt it says it’s respecting privacy.
The only text that might clue me in is scrolling on the right super fast and I can’t stop the scrolling.
when I finally find a popup, it takes me to a different page where “Users” is selected, but I can’t select “Explore” to find out more — I STILL don’t know what “Calckey” actually is.

I never heard of Calckey before your post right here. And I STILL now, don’t know exactly what Calckey is, even though I am plenty versed in mastodon and the fediverse.

Horrible.

@godofbiscuits @fediversenews Calckey is a fork of Misskey.

Misskey, along with Calckey, Foundkey, and other forks are collectively known as the *key apps.

*key apps are the 2nd most used platform on the Fediverse.

Calckey is a microblogging platform that does a lot of stuff. For example, you can join groups called "channels", create curated photo galleries, and store documents.

The sign-up page could be better, but I would suggest trying Calckey first before writing it off 🙂

@atomicpoet @fediversenews At this point it doesn’t matter what it is. Or I should say explaining what it is doesn’t fix the fact that that page is a perfect example of the perception from the outside looking in of the inscrutability of the fediverse and mastodon. It’s frustrating to the point of believing they just hate “muggles”.

I don’t want anything to do with the people who made it until they fix it and apologize.

Chris Trottier

@godofbiscuits @fediversenews Sorry, apologize for what? Do you realize this is a volunteer project made by people who are giving you something for free?

@atomicpoet @fediversenews they gave me anxiety and you need to see that they’re potentially doing harm to the cause you’re spending so much time trying to grow.

@godofbiscuits If you don't like something, it's okay to not like it. But no one should apologize to you just because they're volunteers giving you something for free.

Frankly, you're acting like a Karen.

@atomicpoet I would think you’d be concerned. It’s sites like that that put default mastodon server buttons on signup in client apps.

Thanks for the name calling. That’s terrific.

@godofbiscuits @atomicpoet @fediversenews what? so a UI that you personally find confusing necessitates an apology, and is a similar Bad Thing to defaulting users to a server (which is intended to make for an *easier* UI flow)?

something doesn’t add up here :ablobfoxhyperthinking: