Check your Member settings… and toggle “Allow new Registrations” on. I think that is all you need to do to activate it, although you likely need a license if you want to allow those users to have access to the Control panel without a warning banner. I haven’t used the Forums so it’s possible the same caveat exists there.
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The forum is definitely free, so that shouldn’t be in play on the latest EE.
But I think that message is a hint- go look in ‘Members- Roles’ and make sure both pending and members are unlocked- see below.
There are alot of permissions associated with frontend member sign-ups. So you have to allow them, and you need to decide if it’s automatic or if they have to do email verification or manual verification and such. But if you get those right and unlock the role, it should work.
If it still gives you any trouble, let me know and I’ll test it out.
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