Matthew Toseland 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. > > 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... :| >
I think we all know what happened; we just don't want to admit it. NextGen$ _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [email protected] http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
