That post is only in regards to the CI feature.
But today, even basic registration requires personal identification. You cannot even report bugs on open source projects without
To add a few more details:
After trying several times with different IPs and different browsers, I was able to register by providing only a mobile phone number once.
Since that still requires personal information, this is still a very questionable process. (not to mention it took me a day to not be asked for a cred card)
Try lf then. You can configure it to work just like ranger (see project wiki)