That's actually expected for preventing spam. The idea is to keep the etherpad istance closed for GNOME's teams needs. Just let me know which pads you need and I'll set them up. There's one available for the release team already at https://etherpad.gnome.org/p/ReleaseTeam, it's password protected as its requestor asked me. Poke me for the password or if you need additional pads created.

At the moment this is so limited we still have to hold our meetings on external etherpad instances.  To make it useful it should allow us to create on the spot whatever page we need (we can decide on a rt- namespace).  (also I'd wish to have it open, but that's probably another matter).

I was actually thinking about this since some time and see how it goes by opening the istance to everyone. I feel we can just see how it goes for the first period and eventually find a solution if the spam starts coming in.

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> That's actually expected for preventing spam.

Errrm, maybe the UI should not offer creating a new tab then? :P

Having exactly one Etherpad might work for the release-team, as we should move notes to static and public wikipages afterwards anyway (question of workflow), so the current Etherpad setup might make sense now that I know about it! :)

Offtopic: Are we running Etherpad 1.1? (Asking because at my work we love discussing how Etherpad sucks or is great, compared to Etherpad Lite. See https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46539 for an entertaining read.)

aha that's a good point (about the offering a new tab), we're running git master right now which is release 1.2.11 :-)