Revert "Disable registrations by default due to spam."

Turns out this breaks tests. Will attempt again when I have time to deal with
the tests.

This reverts commit 120f144f0eb014e694a584a627c8b17856da5b51.

docs/source/siteadmin/deploying.rst

@@ -317,9 +317,6 @@ your own email address and enter a secure password when prompted::
     $ ./bin/gmg adduser --username you --email you@example.com
     $ ./bin/gmg makeadmin you
 
-Public registrations is disabled by default due to automated spam
-registrations. For more details, see ":ref:`enable-registration`"
-
 
 Test the Server
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

docs/source/siteadmin/production-deployments.rst

@@ -18,30 +18,28 @@ Further Considerations for Production Deployments
 This page extends upon our ":doc:`deploying`" guide to describe some common
 issues affecting production deployments.
 
-.. _enable-registration:
 
 Should I Keep Open Registration Enabled?
 ----------------------------------------
 
-Unfortunately, enabling public registrations in MediaGoblin will usually result
+Unfortunately, in this current release of MediaGoblin we are suffering
-in many thousands of automated spam registrations. Spam accounts will typically
+from spammers registering to public instances en masse.  As such, you
-remain un-activated, but the volume alone may cause poor performance on your
+may want to either:
-site. For this reason, registrations are disabled by default and we recommend
-against enabling public registration.
 
-Should you choose to enable registration, you can update in your mediagoblin.ini
+a) Disable registration on your instance and just make
-like so::
+   accounts for people you know and trust (eg via the `gmg adduser`
+   command).  You can disable registration in your mediagoblin.ini
+   like so::
 
      [mediagoblin]
      allow_registration = false
 
-Alternatively, you may wish to just make accounts for people you know and trust
+b) Enable a CAPTCHA plugin.  But unfortunately, though some CAPTCHA
-(eg via the `gmg adduser` command).
+   plugins exist, for various reasons we do not have any general
+   recommendations we can make at this point.
 
-A further option may be to enable a CAPTCHA plugin. But unfortunately, though
+We hope to have a better solution to this situation shortly.  We
-some CAPTCHA plugins exist, for various reasons we do not have any general
+apologize for the inconvenience in the meanwhile.
-recommendations we can make at this point. We hope to provide a better solution
-to this problem in the future.
 
 
 Confidential Files

docs/source/siteadmin/relnotes.rst

@@ -44,7 +44,6 @@ This chapter has important information about our current and previous releases.
 - Remove Debian 10 development Dockerfile (BenSturmfels)
 - Document running multiple MediaGoblin instances on one server (Ben Sturmfels)
 - Begin conversion from jQuery to vanilla JS (Ben Sturmfels)
-- Disable registration by default due to spam (Ben Sturmfels)
 
 **Bug fixes:**
 

mediagoblin.example.ini

@@ -27,9 +27,8 @@ email_debug_mode = true
 # email_smtp_host = ""
 # email_smtp_port = 0
 
-# Set to true to enable registrations. We recommend reading "Should I Keep Open
+# Set to false to disable registrations
-# Registration Enabled?" in the production deployment documentation first.
+allow_registration = true
-allow_registration = false
 
 # Set to false to disable the ability for users to report offensive content
 allow_reporting = true

mediagoblin/config_spec.ini

@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ email_smtp_pass = string(default=None)
 
 
 # Set to false to disable registrations
-allow_registration = boolean(default=False)
+allow_registration = boolean(default=True)
 
 # tag parsing
 tags_max_length = integer(default=255)