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FYI, the register form doesn't display for adblock plus users -- forms usually do, so this was quite confusing. It looked like you weren't accepting new users.

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Thanks very much for this. We were actually aware of this already (specifically, it's an issue with the Fanboy Annoyances feature on Adblock) but we thought that, on balance, so few people would have this specific feature enabled that we would go without an ugly box altering them to this fact. Obviously some people do have it enabled - sorry it it cause inconvenience. I hope your comment stays near the top for clarification.

Makes sense. I'd expect the bitcoin owning population to have many more ABP users than the general population though.

Re: adding a black box.

It looks like just not using "mc_embed_signup" and "mc-embedded-subscribe-form" as the form's id and class would solve the problem. Elements with those classes and ids are display:none'd by ABP.

(You can verify this yourself by enabling adblock plus, then inspecting the element)

Great tip, thank you very much for this.

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