Hi Hive account@r1s2g3, thanks for voicing out your concern. It makes a difference for my team to keep improving Torum.

Requiring users to enter their mobile numbers is one of the steps taken to ensure that the users are most likely authentic as we are very committed in ensuring the quality of users and contents, and we discourage spam and fake accounts.

Please feel free to let me know if you have any suggestion for us. Cheers and stay safe!

Ah Go
Founder of Torum.com