[ognarb]

And upstream made it pretty clear that they weren't interested in contributors or building a community :( https://secure.phabricator.com/book/phabcontrib/article/cont...

> To contribute to the Phabricator upstream, you must first pass a series of ancient trials and be invited to register an account in the ancestral homeland of Phabricator, here on secure.phabricator.com. The nature and location of these trials is a closely guarded secret.

[ericbarrett]

epriestly has a weird sense of humor. The "trials" were probably sending him a friendly email. (I worked at FB at the same time as him)

[im3w1l]

Maybe, but I could also see it deterring would-be contributors.

[IshKebab]

I think it was to encourage companies to sign up for support accounts. You can't even comment on issues without one.

[bawolff]

I think that's just being honest. Most open source projects make you jump through hoops, they just usually pretend they dont exist.

[tasogare]

That’s humor. And based on it the location of the URL to create an account is likely very obvious.