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+# DUE TO A HIGH NUMBER OF SPAM REGISTRATIONS, NEW ACCOUNT SELF-REGISTRATION IS CURRENTLY DISABLED.
+If you want an account on this Gitea instance, join our IRC channel (`irc.freenode.net`, `#octaforge`; if you don't have an IRC client, you can use https://webchat.freenode.net) and ask `q66`.
+
 As of 2020/04, the OctaForge project has been restarted, for now experimentally.
 
 # What is it now?