Re: Are we about to DDOS the Salsa signup flow?
On Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 11:47:25AM +0100, Andrew Sayers wrote:
>Assuming we have a specific day that we switch to the new wiki, most users
>without a Salsa account will procrastinate making one until the day,
>then all sign up at once and be mad at having to wait while the Salsa folks
>get through the backlog.
>
>Can we work with the Salsa people to e-mail every wiki account that doesn't
>have a matching Salsa account, with a message like when you subscribe to an ML?
>I.e. give them a unique code, and use the code to verify them automatically.
That's a good thought, yeah. Mail the Salsa admins and ask what they think?
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