Bug Fix + Apology 😊
Just about a few hours ago @rambling-rabbit DM'd me that some of the users from old Discord community were not able to sign-up. We've fixed the bug. I wanted to take a moment to inform our community what went wrong.
Back in December 2025, all the communities running on Jatra, the platform that powers this community, were attacked by human spam-farms. Communities would get a 20-50 sign-ups overnight and get flooded with links / ads pointing to e-com websites in SEA.
We have a lot of spam control mechanisms acting behind the scenes that prevent spammers and bots right at the sign-up stage. These mechanisms are good at catching bots and scripts; but catching a human-spammer is a challenge. That's why these spam-farms employ a lot of workers to flood communities, comment sections with links that point to their client websites.
These spam farms make use of compromised servers / computers at different locations throughout the world. Even the safest locations sometimes get added in the IP-ranges used by them.
In order to prevent the spam attack, we added a small 'feature' to annoy the spammers. We identified that almost all of these spammers used Hotmail or Outlook email domains.
Here's how it worked:
If a user signed up using hotmail or outlook domain, we would -
Make them wait for 30 seconds. The browser would stop responding.
Redirect them to :
...and we did that just to annoy the spammers.
We didn't expect these spam prevention rules would ever trigger for authentic sign-ups.
We have fixed this behavior and now show an error message. Outlook and Hotmail are still banned from signing up. I request you to use Gmail or any other email domain to create an account on new DMT World.
If you wish to sign-up using your hotmail or outlook domain; please let KB know. We'll make a special provision for you.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
