I think their biggest issue was suddenly being viral, while also dealing with server incursion/tons of new accounts, which meant that lots and lots of people are suddenly clamoring specifically for their attention/making requests for said lists/asking what the rules are/responding directly to the post that went viral but without being vetted beforehand or understanding the previous implicit social rules.
While they started with a small discussion with people informed about the differences and server stress became instead a tornado of a much larger discussion while also dumping more stress on the servers, as well as emotional stress of having to deal with all the incoming attention.
So. They are overwhelmed, and everything seems like it needs to be solved with the highest priority, but they aren't set up with enough help desk/sub-admin people to filter/protect themselves.
Basically all mastodon server admins have a need, at least temporarily, for some business style structure. They need a Janine Melnitz (Ghostbusters Secretary) to prioritize server is burning down messages, organize non-server is burning down contact requests, and direct help/press requests to appropriate people. And perhaps someone else available to work on social onboarding.
All personal blog/toot/tweets posted by said overwhelmed server admins should also be taken with a grain (or more) of salt. They may feel differently when things are calmer, or might be able to be more diplomatic in general.
Overall though, it was good to hear about how the Author is feeling, and how self-aware they are about how it was similar to when their cohort joined and had to adapt and how the previous fediverse admins might have dealt with similar things.
"..there are names for the sort of person who makes lists of people so others can monitor their communications. They’re not nice names.”
"All Humble Choice members receive a selection of hand-picked games redeemable via a key for select platforms, when available (Steam, Epic, Origin, GOG, etc.). You can find these games at the Humble Choice Hub after unlocking the current month of Choice. Games in the Humble app for Windows PC, including the Humble Games Collection, are only available to active Humble Choice members. New Humble Choice games are available on the first Tuesday of every month."
Which is good, because I have, ~20 pages of keys to redeem since I've been a long time humblebundler and usually only grabbed things as I was playing. I was worried I'd have to redeem them all before Feb, which doesn't sound like the case. So, business as usual for me? though it might be good to get most things I want redeemed over to steam fwiw.
It does sound (from reading this thread) that Linux/Mac users who want their DRM free d/ls will need to grab them before the switchover.
quick followup, after checking my old links and making a new sign up. it does seem like the inrupt.com pod has a bit better /more up to date design. Accessibility, while not perfect, does seem to be improved. (quick WAVE tool check)
Things are still fairly confusing for new users though. And some how tos I wrote down from then no longer work. Which is not the worst thing, as some of the tutorials required you to hover over and wait to be able to edit things.
Much easier to look at though. ymmv
for historical/hysterical reference, I uploaded my old solid adventuress file, it is not up to date, and some of the css is not always showing the right colors, ect.
I haven't looked into it for a couple years, I was initially very excited about the concept. TLDR: Unless the user experience/accessibility/hosting experience is improved, I just couldn't suggest anyone use it.
Last time I really dug in the user interface and accessibility concerns were not great.
I understand the idea was more about the data handling, and that anyone could produce something based off the framework but I had all sorts of issues with the login tokens/usability. (ie, if you logged in with the wrong cert it didn't have an easy way to clear it, and would 'log in' to an error page. ect. )
as far as I can tell, each pod/data host can run different versions of solid, so your experience may vary between them. You can self host as well.
I'd have to dig in again to see if things have gotten better, but I don't have time at the moment.
on quick look, some of my data sites are no longer working. oh! link says it was shut down in oct. https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-solid/2020Oct/00...
That said, the community was pretty nice and willing to answer questions.
Maybe things have improved?
I was hoping that maybe they'd start using DAT as well, because it seemed like it might be nice to dovetail with some of the beakerbrowser/distributed web stuff going on. re @pfrazee
While they started with a small discussion with people informed about the differences and server stress became instead a tornado of a much larger discussion while also dumping more stress on the servers, as well as emotional stress of having to deal with all the incoming attention.
So. They are overwhelmed, and everything seems like it needs to be solved with the highest priority, but they aren't set up with enough help desk/sub-admin people to filter/protect themselves.
Basically all mastodon server admins have a need, at least temporarily, for some business style structure. They need a Janine Melnitz (Ghostbusters Secretary) to prioritize server is burning down messages, organize non-server is burning down contact requests, and direct help/press requests to appropriate people. And perhaps someone else available to work on social onboarding.
All personal blog/toot/tweets posted by said overwhelmed server admins should also be taken with a grain (or more) of salt. They may feel differently when things are calmer, or might be able to be more diplomatic in general.
Overall though, it was good to hear about how the Author is feeling, and how self-aware they are about how it was similar to when their cohort joined and had to adapt and how the previous fediverse admins might have dealt with similar things.
"..there are names for the sort of person who makes lists of people so others can monitor their communications. They’re not nice names.”