Thank you for taking it upon yourself to see how to offer lasting solutions to this particular problem, I also appreciate efforts made by @pharesim and others to fix this.
Few days ago, a friend sent invites for two persons to join, one was successful and the other wasn't. They requested for the invitee's account to be completed and approved by the sender of the invite. On receiving email for this, we tried severally to open the link so as to complete the approval process, but all efforts proved abortive.
I am hopeful using steemconnect 2 as an alternative interface will help fix this challenge, since the first interface has been taken down.
Thank you @Surpassinggoogle for always shining the light, well done.