Members and Active members
 

My board says: Members: 5,998, Active Members: 558

Does that mean that there among 5998 signups - only 558 have clicked the activation email and activated their accounts?
We want users to this bard, perhaps it is to difficult to sign up?

If so, is there a way I can bulk activate all the other signups?

Is there a way to bypass the activation email step in the singup sequence?

If that was so, your "Awaiting email confirmation" usergroup would have ~5400 members in it. Does it? No.

The active members are only those who have visited your board within the last X number of days.

Hmmmm, I have Registered Users: 5,989

But I have zero "Users Awaiting Email Confirmation".

If you do not require activation by email, users will not be transferred to the 'Users Awaiting Email Confirmation'.