Registering should not require Discord

[rapappathepepper]

In order for me to register, I had to join a Discord server to do so. But if you guys already know the current situation... And how I use forums more often these days to get away these authorities (and because I don't have many people to spend time with anymore), it shouldn't require Discord to register anymore. Like, for months, I've been the latest member, but I don't doubt there have been other people trying to register, and we have very little fertility in this site because of this now.   I just so happen to be lucky that in late 2025 the age verification stuff wasn't being shoved down my throat, but going forward... What would I even do? If I tried registering now, I would never have even been here.  

[Blackcat]

In order for me to register, I had to join a Discord server to do so. But if you guys already know the current situation... And how I use forums more often these days to get away these authorities (and because I don't have many people to spend time with anymore), it shouldn't require Discord to register anymore. Like, for months, I've been the latest member, but I don't doubt there have been other people trying to register, and we have very little fertility in this site because of this now.   I just so happen to be lucky that in late 2025 the age verification stuff wasn't being shoved down my throat, but going forward... What would I even do? If I tried registering now, I would never have even been here.  

We were being spammed by bots constantly and the forum code has not been updated in ages. That combined with low activity in the forum made things this way.

The only other option would be to make a new forum and move the accounts and posts there, for a forum that has not been active in over a decade.

Edit: All those guests? Bots:
https://forums.edoropolis.org/index.php?action=who