Hey there! For complicated reasons, some of which I will explain later, I'm in the middle of dong a pretty gigantic revamp to the Motte codebase. Right now, this means "fix a bunch of small bugs". Later, other things will be happening.
The immediate goal of this is not to massively transform the site or do a Digg v4/New Reddit thing. Frankly, if the site remained exactly the same (but with fewer bugs) I would be happy.
The long-term goal isn't going to be quite that static, though. The long-term goal is to set things up to allow more subcommunities, similar to how subreddits work. This will be a larger set of changes. These changes will not obsolete The Motte itself; I am absolutely aiming for a site that can comfortably keep holding The Motte. I've talked about this before if you want to go read about it - this is still the same plan, for what it's worth, it's just now being (slowly) executed.
I will be posting more, and asking questions about next steps, when actual site behavioral changes are in the queue. This just isn't that! This is infrastructure work.
tl;dr: The site backend may be a little wonky for a bit, sorry about that, please report any bugs.
(and mods, feel free to unsticky this in a few days if I forget)
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Notes -
I suggest federation. The Motte basically stays as-is, except users here can crosspost to and comment on other instances of the Motte’s infrastructure, and vice versa, with some support for Lemmy and Mastodon (I think the Motte should stay a bit different than Lemmy, IME this site is more user-friendly). Zorba keeps running the Motte, but also starts a couple other instances for hobbies, and maybe others run their own instances for whatever niches this site is lacking (a philosophy-focused Motte? Hacker News 2.0?)
Although, other instances overlapping with parts of the Motte threatens to split the community into nothingness, hence crossposting and commenting should be practically seamless; and I would be careful introducing ones that aren’t very disjoint (like hobby or finance…we have Tinker Tuesday and Spending Saturday but they’re barely active).
(EDIT: and I don’t think subreddits should exist, at least yet; because I expect these instances will be so small, everything in the same feed would not be an issue, and attract more discussion from people in one interest glancing at another (like the Motte).)
No. Keep Motte content on The Motte.
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