carpathianflorist
162 IQ social equity activist (she/them)
STEM major | 21 | nonbinary femme (she/them) | panromantic asexual | independent filmmaker from brooklyn | unapologetically neurodivergent
User ID: 264
carpathianflorist
162 IQ social equity activist (she/them)
1yr ago
When rDrama was new (and then not so new), we still had constant outages and hilarious glitches all the time. Like Aevann got 0 sleep for the first six months or so. Every time he’d add a feature, a million other things would break. Then as soon as he’d fix one of them, two million more would break. There was one night where we couldn’t comment or view any threads because something innocuous broke when patching something else and we all just communicated via thread titles and publicly visible reports for hours.
Now everything runs incredibly smoothly and Aevann has learned a ton just through endless trial by fire (and sleep deprivation) for those months. We add huge new things all the time and are constantly optimizing early jank with new knowledge and nothing ever really breaks for more than a couple minutes at worst anymore.
I realize this is a No Fun Allowed by design place, but it’s important - for your own sanity as the dev, and for the userbase’s tolerance of early growing pains and learning moments - to take it all in stride and have fun with it. We fostered a culture immediately of “shit’s going to break, we’re learning, deal with it” and people have always taken it in stride and memed about it endlessly because we built that culture up. No one gets mad. No one has to make tedious mea culpas because we broke something. We reward people for breaking things and encourage it because then we can fix an issue we weren’t aware of. This is a good system and lets people have fun and not freak out when things break.
I’d strongly recommend not setting an expectation for lengthy technical explanations of what happened and why when something goes wrong. A sentence or two at most. “Sorry to I was drunk and fell asleep at 4am trying to fix something else and I was too tired to fix it, that’s why you could only communicate via dick pics for 6 hours” is perfectly serviceable.
That’s one of the many nice parts about not being a massive global megacorp like Reddit. You’re just a few dudes doing something for fun. You don’t owe stakeholders receipts for something that broke. There are no stakeholders. The userbase will understand. But if you go about explaining everything that went wrong every time something goes wrong, you’ll breed mounting discontent and you’ll never have time for anything else.
Lighten up nerds.
Good evening! I checked the rules of the Culture War Roundup before posting this and I think you are in violation of this one:
It also seems very “Boo Outgroup!”y, while we’re on the subject. And while it’s generally agreed that Holocaust revisionists are a safe and acceptable outgroup to boo and sneer at, I don’t believe that makes it any better; rather, it’s just boring at best, and outright insidious at worst. Holocaust revisionists today, Nazis are bad, yes, but what about the theoretical outgroup that supplants them as a safe and acceptable outgroup? Or their followup? The one after?
To wit, this comment thread itself just smacks of intellectual laziness and, if you will pardon a bit of parlance from our digital homeland, circlejerking. Do Holocaust revisionists even need lampooning, however flowery the wording of that lampooning? Is there really anyone noteworthy in the Holocaust revision camp?
More options
Context Copy link