Hey guys,
I just wanted to highlight this today because I have few friends that wanted to get a Steemit account after my recommendation.
They've been waiting for their approval for quiet a while now. 3-4 days and even one week.
So I know Steemit needs to approve accounts to avoid spams and things like that but one week to get your account for me slow down the mass adoption.
It could easily scared new comers that are not patient to wait that long to start blogging. Specially with the complexity of the platform towards the blockchain (we must say it's harder to understand than Facebook or Twitter)
When you see that Facebook takes only few minutes or even Twitter to set up a new account. We are far from it.
So I don't know what could be the solution to avoid this long waiting time but I'm open to discussion.
Yeah, I had the same complaints from many of my YT followers. Apparently the traffic is so high, the system can't accept new accounts as fast as it should. It demotivated a lot of people who wanted to join. By the time they were in, they didn't feel like posting anymore.
That's a real shame. I hope they will manage to handle the traffic that is coming. Apparently we are more than 1 million user and it keeps coming
My friend never got his confirmation email, he signed up a couple days after me... 45 days later I went ahead and made him an account through Steem Connect and delegated him. I hope he still has the will to come on here because he has really great content... only time will tell.
That's a shame I hope your friend will still be willing to come and blog on Steemit. Delegated to him is a good idea I think, smart move =)
I have been hearing the waiting times are about a week. That is what i am hearing form two friends who just joined. It seems it has not gotten any worse but also no better. I do not think people will be scared away however. I think in act the opposite can happen. Anticipation builds. Yes you get Facebook in a few minutes but what do you really get?
With FB you don't get much indeed and a lot of spams and fake account.
But imagine, the efficiency of FB with the use of Steemit ? Kaboom ... Mass adoption =)
I get your point but this platform does not really compare with Facebook nor will this platform every really move with the speed and grace of Facebook. This is a blogging platform. Steemit is set up more like Tumblr which is also huge.
Mine took 5 days, my wife's took 2 weeks.
That's cool that your wife is on Steemit too =) like that you can talk about things connected to Steemit and she understands what you're talking about haha
Yeah, it makes it a lot easier to spend a lot of time on Steemit and not get fussed at for it 😁
I signed up on Saturday 10 March, heard that it takes a bit longer to get approved over the weekends as the approvals are done manually (?) and received the email Monday 12 March.
I guess you got lucky haha =) Happy Steeming
Yeah! Phew =)
I waited near 3 weeks for my account to be approved, I had to go to steem.chat to ask for help, there was a lot of people with the same problem. Who knows if it would have been approved if I hadn't done it.