GMT +1, 03:30 - No major news. We're working on it and making progress.
I do want to make this another moment of reflection, the logistical nightmare of getting a community to work together like it has. It was a nightmare, without a clear solution, where the mods had no "good" choice.
It started off small: an open discord channel in which everyone could talk, working together to fix the API. It became clear this wasn't as easy as we thought.
Meanwhile the amount of people in the channel talking grew and grew. This however led to huge amounts of spam, most commonly "When is the API ready/What happened with the API". The situation became unworkable and we had to restrict talking rights on the discord.
This situation also became unworkable, people were claiming our progress as their own and they were also giving the community false hope as in how fast a new API would be made. On top of that the mods were still being spammed to death with requests for talking rights in the channel. We decided to hide the channel completely.
We tried a secondary channel, in which people could prove themselves worthy. But this channel started to get the same problems as the primary channel had initially. As well as people in the channel being understandibly angry at the mods, because they had no access to our primary channel they were doing the work we did hours ago.
Right now we are moving to transparancy again. We made the primary channel readable for everyone again. And hopefully noone will abuse this. We have also made an open-to-everyone github:
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What can we learn from this though? I think there is no "solution" to this problem. Instead I want to thank the mods for putting in ridiculous amounts of work, merely to ease the pain of an unsolvable situation.
For now I am going to sleep. We have opened a channel for API-updates
, the updates in the chat will probably be a bit more tech-heavy. I will be back for translations to English tomorrow.
