I think the sign-up process on this page should be improved. If you are going to force us new users to follow people and projects as part of sign up then let us search and browse as opposed to giving us limited options.

Hello Tara, sorry to not see this earlier. We've made a few improvements over the last few months, but I'll still feedback to the team. If you have more feedback about hacakday.io we'd love to see it over on https://hackaday.io/project/37-feedback-hackadayio. Cheers!