We’ve somehow caught the attention of a spam farm, and for the duration we’ve turned on approval of new users.
That takes me to the review queue (finally… I use it so infrequently, it took a while to remember it exists).
And here’s where I realize how incredibly spoiled I am by the auto-refresh of the rest of the Discourse UI. Because the review queue does not auto refresh:
I suppose I could, @putty and thanks for the suggestion. But that seems like a heavy solution for something that I’m hoping will be a transient problem.
(And I’m old enough to remember when you could really fudge up your browser with extensions & so am a bit cautious in that regard.)