Doctor MemoryRIP the man who was the absolute incarnation of XKCD's "one random dude holding up the entire internet". You may never have heard of David Mills, but your entire goddamn world depends on what he did.
Toby@memory No disrespect meant to Dr. Mills here, the single person keeping the protocol going for the last 20 years has been a man named Harlan Stenn.
Dr. David Mills had been blind for a considerable amount of time and was no longer able to re-read old code to be able to explain it to others. Stenn has thanklessly been continuing Mills's vision and receiving far more vitriol: all of the contempt of being the single person keeping a critical piece of software relevant, with none of the respect, adoration, or name recognition of being that code's original developer and proponent.
Alexander The 1st@xenotrope @memory Blind or not, going from a Bus Factor of 2 down to 1 is still pretty significant; especially since now we definitely can't ask Mills for help, and will be relying on Stenn until someone else takes up the mantle of the codebase... ideally multiple people at the same time this time.
:David Campey