I just seen an article about this today, tried to find the link for you but I am not seeing it anywhere but it was an official Steemit update. Basically they are going to try to make it harder for bots and for fake account creators to just sneak in. So they are going to basically not automate things anymore so costs on Steemit for hosting fake accounts can be cut down and for abuse by such accounts. I believe we hit a stage for more needed security here and why they are doing the waiting list thing now. I feel ya about this, I have been working the crowd on my horror page to move over here and follow us but this does kind of slowed down the process which I was working hard on accomplishing.