Thanks Ankur.
1. docs.fedoraproject.org user-contribution process: documented?
Is there a documented process for users like me contributing to the above Fedora Docs collection (of documents)? I do not have an immediate need, but it would make sense to have a documented process for this, yes?
Without the above:
a. There seems to be a different kind of problem with elmininating the Fedora Wiki: you get little or no user-documentation content submitted. My topic above might be a small case study of a good example for missed oppty for user-contributed docs; ie, “training an experienced Ubuntu-Server sysadmin to spinup quickly on Fedora Server” seems like an obviously-valuable document that’s currently underserved.
b. [an aside] Granted, my experience is that Wiki’s without rigorous document/content-management process and structure (I’ve managed some of these whose lifetime spanned many years) tend to devolve into much-less-useful resources over time, and it makes sense to me that Fedora Wiki was shut down.
c. User-developed content now lives in un-discoverable, un-structured, and/or un-indexed places (this forum and reddit are probably the most-popular spots… and Q+A threads are not my definition of “nicely-structred and efficiently-presented docs”).
This is almost assuredly not the first time the Fedora community leaders considered this (when they took down the Wiki). Where is the output/conclusion/documented_direction_from_leaders that resulted from that discussion? Specifically: what if any process exists for community input to docs dot fedoraproject dot org? ie, how does the community best fill the “hole” from no Wiki server? Maybe it’s there and we (my team) simply overlooked it.
(I apologize for the “dot” URL lingo; I’m a new user and this forum site keeps dinging me for adding website references to my post.)
For a community like Fedora that seems to be big into “self help” this feels a bit problematic and misaligned with the community’s charter.
Maybe I’m mis-understanding something?
2. past (4+ years ago) account-creation/sign-on/email-list-subscription problems
The troubles with fedora-community/sights account creation, mailing-list subscription, and related things:
- this happened more than 4 years ago. hard to remember exact specifics.
- problematic, from what I vaguely recall:
- email-address verfication
- password creation (the account-management engine may not have been real-time updating the passwords/authentication)
- new/change account credentials were not recognized across multiple Fedora website/communities, even though they were clearly supposed to be.
- it took me multiple hours, possibly days to get signed up to an email list. (I’ve subscribed to hundreds of email lists over the years. I have my own email domains. And yes, I know how to manage spam filters.)
- eventually I gave up and (maybe?) started making multiple fedora accounts (with different email addresses) to get the job/tasks done.
It was a big, big mess. But it was so long ago and my memory so hazy (I did not keep any specific notes) that the info is probably no longer useful or pertinent.
The account-update procedure I went through yesterday was much better. Details:
I updated my password from a fedoraproject.com account I had stored in a password-vault system entry created 1.5 yrs ago and that seemed to work fine. I logged into this forums’ site (ask dot fedoraproject dot org), and while it took many seconds for the login to initially work (there was clearly some sort of background process initializing my first login… or something?), it all worked. I was relieved. 
The login-page quirk of combining the password and 2FA/one-time-password code/text into the same text entry field? It’s quite error prone and I’ve never seen that before. Certainly not an optimal thing, but alas, I suspect someone’s trying to make lemonade from lemons given a limited toolset (from whatever the tool-forum software is; it feels “Discourse”-y). Regardless, it works (for my login here, at least), and that’s a good thing.
If I have continued login or related “common account” problems later, I’ll start another thread here (at ask dot fedoraproject dot org).