Admin registrations have no effect with custom default admin site in the same package

My bet is that this line Coriolis/__init__.py at b82e6f49d9cba41ba55c800a472e73a71fc09a02 · DragoonAethis/Coriolis · GitHub is causing your pain. Your models file is likely importing something that is conflicting. If you haven’t heard it already, don’t import a wildcard. It leads to difficult to debug situations like this.