On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Matthew Toseland <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
If you don't have time to review FMS, just create a new user account and run fms under it. -- you are not anonymous anyway, there is nothing to lost. don't want to endorse it? just don't post to it then. just reading it can keep you informed what's going on in the community. > > 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? Most board were usable in December . >> > 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... :| > > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > [email protected] > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [email protected] http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
