On Friday 23 January 2009 11:15, Florent Daigniere wrote: > 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.
Hmmm? > > NextGen$
pgpFF7iChZgkU.pgp
Description: PGP signature
_______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [email protected] http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
