On Thursday 22 January 2009 18:36, xor wrote: > > 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?
I don't use FMS, because I don't think it would be appropriate to bundle it (we don't bundle Thaw, jSite, Frost or Thingamablog), and therefore I don't have time to code review it in order to use it. There is an ongoing debate about this but we *will* bundle Freetalk, when it is usable, which should be soon. In any case, I don't believe that the lack of me causes the whole community to collapse! However, having active devs posting certainly would help - I look forward to being able to argue with the anonymous community again soon. > > > > 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. So you have the ALICE spam but not the DoS any more? > > > > 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? Don't ask me... :|
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