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.

3 files changed, 12 insertions, 18 deletions

diff --git a/docs/source/siteadmin/deploying.rst b/docs/source/siteadmin/deploying.rst
index 8a8c19ac..caebf490 100644
--- a/docs/source/siteadmin/deploying.rst
+++ b/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
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
diff --git a/docs/source/siteadmin/production-deployments.rst b/docs/source/siteadmin/production-deployments.rst
index 022d8175..52563e6e 100644
--- a/docs/source/siteadmin/production-deployments.rst
+++ b/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
-in many thousands of automated spam registrations. Spam accounts will typically
-remain un-activated, but the volume alone may cause poor performance on your
-site. For this reason, registrations are disabled by default and we recommend
-against enabling public registration.
+Unfortunately, in this current release of MediaGoblin we are suffering
+from spammers registering to public instances en masse.  As such, you
+may want to either:
 
-Should you choose to enable registration, you can update in your mediagoblin.ini
-like so::
+a) Disable registration on your instance and just make
+   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
-(eg via the `gmg adduser` command).
+b) Enable a CAPTCHA plugin.  But unfortunately, though some CAPTCHA
+   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
-some CAPTCHA plugins exist, for various reasons we do not have any general
-recommendations we can make at this point. We hope to provide a better solution
-to this problem in the future.
+We hope to have a better solution to this situation shortly.  We
+apologize for the inconvenience in the meanwhile.
 
 
 Confidential Files
diff --git a/docs/source/siteadmin/relnotes.rst b/docs/source/siteadmin/relnotes.rst
index 04eb5366..78342d99 100644
--- a/docs/source/siteadmin/relnotes.rst
+++ b/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:**