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 -
Your timeline feels off to me. I've seen some people point to the late 2000's as the start, when you could see a few tempests in teacups in some nerd communities, and I've seen people point to the 90's or 60's as the earlier waves, but the early 2000's was when this stuff was trending down, if anything.
Relatively compared to what? Like you mentioned there were the CoC wars, people in tech were getting canceled, projects started renaming their
masterbranches. I think you'll be hard pressed to find a professional sector that went more woke sooner.More options
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