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 -
The Rust community is very left-leaning. You know the Scott Alexander post where he talks about how his workplace had "resist Trump" posters but would never tolerate removing them or putting up "support Trump" posters? That's basically what the Rust community is like. If you wish to participate (and are conservative at all), you have to accept that you will have to tolerate people going off occasionally about how trans women are women (or something similar), and you will have to hide your power level. If you try to say "hey, we should focus on programming and not politics", you will get shouted down with "technology is inherently political", and if you try to actually make conservative political arguments you will quickly become persona non grata. I don't know why the community is like that, but that is why the language has a reputation. I just use it and don't engage with the (imo extremely toxic) community.
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