Signing up to steemit meant overcoming a few hurdles. The first and most annoying hurdle occurred in stage two, the sms confirmation.

In this stage of the registration process we first select a country code from a drop down list, then we type our number. The example for the latter shows the number without a preceding 0 or a preceding country code. So, assuming the country code was automatically appended I entered my number without the code or a preceding 0. This simply resulted in a error saying the sms couldn't be sent. Trying again informed me I had to wait 2 minutes. So I waited and tried again, same error. I tried a few times, with and without the preceding 0, just in case. Eventually I gave up, thinking maybe it was a bad time, or a temporary bug.

I tried again the next day. Same problem.

Only on the third day did it actually occur to me to try adding +44 to the number. Then it worked. Kind of. The confirmation page seemed to double up the 44 into 4444, but I did receive the sms, so there is some inconsistency in the code that needs fixing there. After that sign up went relatively smoothly.

I hope this bug report is of some use.