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.
Will just mention that the waiting time is not intentional. We just didn’t have a deny system and that’s been messing with the queue. I sincerely hope we could pass everyone within 6 hours.
Even so, any sort of wait tends to weed out the folks who want to troll, so it’s good!