It doesn't really matter if we can sign people up, if Steemit keeps making it more and more difficult for new users to even have any hope of success.

Congrats on solving this problem.

Now, lets' get some hard forks that reduce the ludicrous tilt in the rewards to the haves here as opposed to the have nots, severely restrict the use of unlimited, malicious, ideologically-driven downvoting, and do SOMETHING to increase newbie retention rates.