Yesterday was intense for everyone. Some quick updates as of last night:
- A large amount of the sitemod team has stepped away from the project. Other comrades from the community have volunteered to pitch in and been modded.
- Some core devs also stepped away from the project. For the time being, you should not expect any further development of new features or bug fixes as we reassess our capacity.
- Main has been locked. No immediate plans to unlock.
- Registration is closed and will remain so for the time being.
We 100% understand and support everyone who left yesterday and are also looking forward to the next stage of Hexbear.
We’re probably not going to be making any additional announcements or formal communication until after the weekend at the earliest. Thanks.
Good. Please don’t worry about petulant children whining that their online day care has been run less smoothly than they demand. Take a deep breath and take your mind off of it for awhile. You’ve all deserved it
At the risk of being stupid and sticking my neck out here: I think the OP is being more than a little disingenuous.
Are there some users who might be acting a little overly dramatic right now? Yeah, it’s the internet, of course there are. But, I’d say that the vast majority of users are just frustrated with the trajectory that the site has been taking for the past couple months. I’m one of those users. Ever since the whole struggle session over the unilateral name change, I kinda got the bad feeling that things would only get worse from there…
I’ve been increasingly turned off by the some of the admins’ “I’ll do what I want” attitude and just skirting around valid criticisms/expressions of fatigue by just banning folks. I think it’s counterproductive to the goals that you guys are trying aim for, and I think there should be some self reflection on that point.
I understand you guys are volunteers, I get that you’re all grown ass adults who’re too old for this shit, but, as a long time subscriber to the old sub and a dude who’s been on the site since day one: the current approach straight up isn’t working. I hope the sites fortunes are able to do a complete 180 after the weekend is up.
I also don’t intend for this message to be snarky or combative, these are just my genuine feelings
the vast majority of users […] the past couple months
I disagree with this, I don’t remember seeing any significant discontent until the VCJ Event started a week ago.
Yup. Part of what we’re evaluating is whether we as group of volunteers can provide the labor necessary for the site and its community. Administering a site this size is a lot more work than any of us realized at the beginning.
If we feel like the ask is too much, then we’ll be stepping away. A number of people have already decided that.
We don’t blame folks for communicating what they need and also if we can’t / aren’t willing to do that than we also have every right to discontinue investing our labor and time.
That’s not intended as a spiteful statement, just more of a reiteration of the dynamic here. It goes both ways.
The mods know what you want. But they can’t give it to you, because they don’t have the resources. Writing the same “well I just think that we need to do more THIS and not THIS” is just sanctimonious. Everyone is doing it, everyone is more or less on the same page about what needs to be done. It’s one thing to identify a problem, it’s another thing to fix it. Let’s save the criticism for another more constructive time, eh?
I understand you guys are volunteers, I get that you’re all grown ass adults who’re too old for this shit, but, as a long time subscriber to the old sub and a dude who’s been on the site since day one: the current approach straight up isn’t working. I hope the sites fortunes are able to do a complete 180 after the weekend is up.
They’re burnt the fuck out. I don’t doubt that they’ll come back sometime next week and productive discussions will be held over the future of the site.
Enjoy your weekend comrades. Hope you can have a breather
Thank you for the update, I hope everyone is able to have a nice weekend
I just got back from vacation. Why is main locked.
You know what a good thing to do when a group of volunteers say they’re all burning out, stressed, and exhausted?
That’s right fuckface, the answer is shut the fuck up for five minutes. Bye.
Anyone who wants to see the comments fucking can in the mod log. It’s always been there.
It’s at the least a trial to see what other topic comms are potentially needed. A lot of the toxicity over the last week sprang up in main and was part of the resulting burn out.
I get that but does anyone else kinda feel like this will weaken our site more? I’m trying to catch up on all the stuff that went down and I’m worried that this response is just dragging this stuff out longer. This could kneecap our community.
I do support the closing of main. In fact I supported it back in August, I believe (hard to go through my history on mobile, I find) *Edit: to encourage the use/growth of non-main communities.
Unfortunately, the default sorts don’t encourage that, and I don’t think from the sound of things anyone will be changing them for a while.
Which leaves us open to sectarian baiting via stickies, ironically not dissimilar to what T_D used to do back in the day.
Who knew we needed a strong liberal to lead us all…
