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Okay, maybe I'm missing something? But it seems like the recent backlash upon our dev trying out caps upon our votes is just... WTF!? (piefed.social)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social to c/piefed_meta@piefed.social

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IIRC, PF-dev Rimu recently explained exactly why he was trialing such limits in a recent software update post. I.e., to create a more efficient internal & external software / HW backbone, for us users, AFAIK. Based on network / host / server loads etc, as I read the updates.

But yeah... the amount of recent negative reaction so far upon that seems... weirdly outsized?
(like, WTF?)

Like-- who the heck comes here exhausted upon corporate social media, and expects a free, open-source community of devs not to tinker with the road-posts and such..?

Pardon my puzzlement here, but I'm a happy PF contributor, and love @PugJesus@piefed.social. Both the dev here and PJ are friends of a sort, and some people I will always try to support.

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[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you are strictly a user, and don't moderate any communities Etc the limit isn't too broken. It is still broken. If you moderate any number of communities. This is extremely broken and makes standard community leader/moderator behavior difficult if not often impossible. I had considered at one point migrating some of my communities over to piefed. And even if I did it likely wouldn't bump this quota for me. But this quota certainly is a good reason for me not to move. Especially the way it was handled.

Rimu has a HUGE communication problem. And this isn't even the first time it's caused drama. Had this been communicated instead of discovered. It wouldn't have been nearly the issue it's become. Had it been communicated instead of discovered. People could have given feedback. Had there been feedback there would have likely been much less pushback. Or maybe not even the issue at all. And believe me I get it. People of the programming mindset get into cycles and logic. Forgetting that that's not what people are. And things that might make sense on that front often don't make sense when you're dealing with people. Until Rimu gets some sort of communication pipeline solved. This will not be the last time changes will cause drama. Or alienation of valuable members.

[–] Snoopy@piefed.social 0 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

That's not a communication problem.

He nearly faced burn out. So he set his own boundary and communication pipeline so we can focus on Piefed developpement instead on dealing on fedidrama.

I also do the same, it gives us a peace of mind. I just post and move elsewhere with my french mod team because it is much more chill than on the threadiverse.

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 3 points 18 hours ago

It's literally a communication issue, and you are having another one right here. At best. I'm well aware of the drama rimu kept getting themselves into. That isn't what were talking about. What were talking about, is a simple blog or community to post on new features and additions. And then civil discussions and feedback.

It's your project, you all can run it as you see fit. And the rest of us are free to fork it or use something else. Something that respects the users more. I'd like to see piefed succeed. I thought you all were interested in that too. But you seem committed to not understanding why/how you're impacting and even running off some of your most active users and their contributions. Or the problem with that.