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Re:Self-hosted, super simple photo stream by netsharc on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @08:40AM (#22545264)
> click on either of those and it's a completely baffling list of stuff with no obvious way to continue.

Hah, you're right, you end up in some slow-loading dashboard (hooray fancy graphed realtime numbers!). I clicked on a random hostname, it's another dashboard page with the hostname in large, the same hostname as a link as a subtitle. I clicked the link, and hey, it's a page that looks like Instagram's sign up page, with the difference being that this one says:

"Registrations are closed."

I tried a few more sites, even the one with the most number of users, and they all say this. Only the 5th site I clicked on allows me to register.

Ah only now do I notice the column "Open Signups" in their fancy dashboard...

Re:Self-hosted, super simple photo stream by eitland on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @10:32AM (#22546140)
The author very actively try to avoid centralizing it which may explain why all big instances has signups closed.
Re:Self-hosted, super simple photo stream by StavrosK on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @01:05PM (#22547493)
Yes, it's still early days for them so signing up isn't as easy as it can be. It's very usable already, though.