Why is there not an obvious way for a visitor to join the forum? I'm looking for a forum to join and found this by Google, BUT, I spent about an hour frustratingly looking for a way to register or to message someone about my inability to find how.

Most people would not have been so persistent, and it put me in a sour mood. Many, many people must have bypassed this forum without joining simply because there was no way for them to do so. I'm puzzled at how the current members found how to register.

After jumping everywhere to find how to register, I finally just tried to log-in with an invalid name, and the "wrong username" screen popped up in a foreign language I could not understand. I just took a stab and clicked on the bottom-most link to see what it said, and it looked like a registration screen but in a language I don't understand. Simply because it was so obvious to anyone having registered on such websites before, I succeeded.

Aren't you interested in attracting more members? Why is there not a easy-to-find place to register to join the forums? I never did find it.