People are abandoning Discord by the millions, planning to escape the upcoming age verification changes. Since this announcement, Stoat has seen a massive surge of new users. That surge has exposed several weaknesses in Stoat’s account creation and verification flow. This guide focuses entirely on those problems, how to resolve them where possible, and what to do when they cannot be fixed.

Takeaways:

  1. Stoat account creation not sending verification codes to email.
  2. Learn how to fix verification issues trying to set up a Stoat account.

Account Creation and Verification Problems in Stoat

Stoat was built for a much smaller user base than it is currently receiving. Massive instant growth has stressed systems responsible for signups, email delivery, and bot protection. Most problems are not user error but infrastructure bottlenecks from the sheer number of new users trying to sign up at the same time. So is ther anything you can do about it? What happens when you try to sign up to Stoat Messenger?

  • Captchas repeat endlessly or that the signup page returns vague errors such as “something went wrong” after successful completion. Captcha providers limit rate limit traffic when too many requests originate from the same IP range or browser fingerprint.

How to Fix Stoat Account Creation and Verification Issues

While these probably won't work while Stoats servers are overloaded by traffic, they are worth trying if the problem is occuring during slower periods.

  • Disable VPNs, proxies, and privacy browsers temporarily.
  • Try a different browser using a clean profile.
  • Clear cookies and site data for Stoat.
  • Switch networks, for example from Wi Fi to mobile data.

From my experience waiting for the US to be asleep seems to give the best results as signup requests seems to drop significantly. During off peak hours early morning UTC is a good time to try.

Stoat Verification Emails Not Arriving

Stoat’s mail servers are struggling because people are leaving Discord at record rates. Unfortunately, there's not really much you can do about it. I just left my email client open and waited for the verification email to turn up. It took 3 hours and landed in Spam so make sure you are checking your spam box as well.

What can you do about it?

  • Check spam, promotions, and junk folders.
  • Whitelist Stoat’s sending domain if your email provider allows it.
  • Use a mainstream provider such as Gmail or Outlook instead of custom domains.
  • Request a new verification email only once every few hours.

Stoat Account Stuck in an Unverified State

Some people can log in but cannot join servers or send messages because verification never completes. At the time of writing these solutions seem to unstick it.

  • Log out and back in after clicking the verification link.
  • Open the verification link in the same browser used during signup.
  • Disable content blockers and script blockers if you are running them.

You can request to send a new verification video if the initial one expires so don't stress about it. Just check back in a couple of days or when things quiten down a little bit.