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  asked Dec 12, 2019 at 16:25
  I login via google and this also happened to me when. After a few tries of going back and forth between normal exchange sites and area51 it finally let me in and up vote some questions.
  Dec 12, 2019 at 20:44
  It is very frustrating that people have to go through that. I have personally pushed some highly respected academic professors and researchers in Materials Science and Materials Engineering to take time out of their day to join our group, and many of them have half their afternoon wasted, which reflects badly on the Stack Exchange Network, but also reflects badly on me because I asked them to join something that wasn't really working. The experience I would like them to have, is that it's easy for them to sign up, and they don't feel discouraged about coming back!
  Dec 12, 2019 at 21:19
  An unfortunate part of all this, is that for the actual launched site (or Beta site), there's no problem signing up at all. So they are made to think that Stack Exchange is a nightmare to get the registration process done successfully, and a nightmare to sign in without getting error screens, when in fact the real site won't have this problem! If there's only 90 followers, that's not reflective of the number of actual users we'll have once there's a real "launched" or Beta site which people can easily sign up for and understand and appreciate!