not a message from me, someone posted it on FMS: ----- Original Message ----- From: <rob...@n-sktdoxt0wgykuykyuncvc1quuknolwmpmyo7n9ocq> Newsgroups: freenet,fms,public Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 4:21 AM Subject: (open letter) What has happened to Freenet?
> I've been on again and off again with Freenet for a while. I usually > keep it up for a couple of months and finally decide the > CPU/disk/bandwidth commitment is too much and shut it down. > > I last did this in August, and I'm back again hopefully forever, but I'm > not fooling myself. (and I know it's churn, I'm sorry) > > My main question is: what happened to the community? There used to be > lively arguments on FMS every day (I used to enjoy arguing with Falafel, > even though I completely disagreed with him :P ), loads of spam in Frost > (like usual, except the DoS has stopped), and frequent postings from the > developers about what was going on. > > Now, when I show up, FMS is dead-quiet. I'm lucky to get a dozen > messages a day (half of which are tests). I haven't seen Toad yet, but > there's been 3 (mandatory) releases in 2 days - didn't he used to > discuss them here, at least occasionally? > > Frost is only used by pedos (and they use it a lot - based on the > boardstats), the spam is like usual, but there's no useful content worth > wading through anymore. > > It's like a ghost town. > > I'd like to stress that I don't think this is anybodies fault. I just > think the community has died - sure I recognize some people (falafel, > Volodya, somedude, sdiz, luke771 for a bit) but the vibrancy has gone. I > feel like there are people here, just everybody is waiting for the > conversation to pick up. > > The only thing I can come up with recently is Julian Cornuel (batosai) > being forced to quit, but it was quiet before then. > > What happened? _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [email protected] http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
