Recent events have made me realise something. In the early days, when PieFed was tiny (it’s still tiny I guess) me being really engaged with the community was a huge strength. I knew immediately what was going on and could release a fix/change really fast and people loved that. In contrast it made the other […]
I was a user for almost 2yrs on Lemm.ee, and noticed first-hand how the founder and head admin Sunaurus gradually got dragged in to the muck by this stuff. It almost seemed like the more he strove to inject professionalism and structure in to the project, the more toxic users the project seemed to attract, and the more of an overall drain it became. Something like that, anyway. All this was also hard on the other supporting admins, and I believe they too got burned out over time, fading away. Well, I was sad and angry seeing how that went, and fairly devastated when the plug finally got pulled.
Me, I come from long experience modding (and a bit of admining) webforums, and have seen this kind of thing there, too. The showrunner really does need to build insulation and practice good, healthy web-habits to survive over time. Then again, it’s undoubtedly trickier when one is also the dev of a custom project. Here’s wishing you the best, mate. <3
Btw, it’s coming up on a year that my project has been hosted here, and I’d like to make a Paypal donation representative of that time-frame. (I’ll have to look in to a monthly donation at a later time, as I have some decisions to make, there) I’ve looked at the three donation services but am unsure which would be the simplest to use for a one-timer. Ko-fi, I’m guessing?
EDIT: there are currently 2 downvotes upon this message. That is so funny.
Frankly, I’ve been low-key worried about this.
I was a user for almost 2yrs on Lemm.ee, and noticed first-hand how the founder and head admin Sunaurus gradually got dragged in to the muck by this stuff. It almost seemed like the more he strove to inject professionalism and structure in to the project, the more toxic users the project seemed to attract, and the more of an overall drain it became. Something like that, anyway. All this was also hard on the other supporting admins, and I believe they too got burned out over time, fading away. Well, I was sad and angry seeing how that went, and fairly devastated when the plug finally got pulled.
Me, I come from long experience modding (and a bit of admining) webforums, and have seen this kind of thing there, too. The showrunner really does need to build insulation and practice good, healthy web-habits to survive over time. Then again, it’s undoubtedly trickier when one is also the dev of a custom project. Here’s wishing you the best, mate. <3
Btw, it’s coming up on a year that my project has been hosted here, and I’d like to make a Paypal donation representative of that time-frame. (I’ll have to look in to a monthly donation at a later time, as I have some decisions to make, there) I’ve looked at the three donation services but am unsure which would be the simplest to use for a one-timer. Ko-fi, I’m guessing?
EDIT: there are currently 2 downvotes upon this message. That is so funny.
Yep it was thinking about lemm.ee and dubvee that made me see the overall pattern. It seems obvious now.
Ko-fi is fine, thanks!
Done. 🙂
(could not have been easier, thanks)