automatically make developers admins on account creation, this solves the user #1 problem

you can simply set the DEVELOPER_EMAILS to a comma delimited list and the users will be auto admined

config/environments/production.rb.sample

@@ -85,6 +85,8 @@ Discourse::Application.configure do
   # a comma delimited list of emails your devs have
   # developers have god like rights and may impersonate anyone in the system
   # normal admins may only impersonate other moderators (not admins)
-  config.developer_emails = []
+  if emails = ENV["DEVELOPER_EMAILS"]
+    config.developer_emails = emails.split(",")
+  end
 
 end