Hello steemit, I've finally been able to join!
I say finally because it was difficult. After stumbling across steemit on YouTube as a crypto blogging platform, I decided to register through the official site (https://signup.steemit.com/). Things went well to begin with and I got a good username (@christopher was already taken) and my email validation code arrived.
My problem began with the telephone verification. I know that my phone works - I can send and receive messages with no problem but when I entered my phone number to register, it would not be rejected, saying "Failed to send phone auto code".
I tried refreshing the page 👎
I tried a different browser 👎
I searched the internet and found a Reddit user who had experienced the same problem (https://www.reddit.com/r/steemit/comments/jm63w6/trouble_signing_up/) which took me to a post on steem that was written 5 years ago (https://steemit.com/steemit/@gmichelbkk/4-ways-to-create-a-new-account-on-steem).
steemit.com didn't work for me 👎
anon.steem.network demanded payment 👎
steemcreate.com didn't work 👎
On the brink of giving up, I tried a different search for free registration tools and found https://steemyy.com/reg.php
Luckily, I have a gmail account and was able to finally register and my adventure can now begin 👍
A big thank you to @justyy for providing this website 👍
Did anybody else have the same problem registering?