"All those difficult judgement calls from our mods and community leaders who wanted to keep the wordpress community healthy and safe, we're just going to throw those out and start fresh."
This is the community safety equivalent of rewriting everything from scratch, except having to relearn every one of those hard-won lessons now includes paying down the huge human cost of learning them the hard way, again, with compound interest.
@mhoye wie man so konsistent hohl drehen kann?! Ich hab WordPress seit (buchstäblich!) Jahrzehnten laufen und lange Zeit war es ein Paradebeispiel für erfolgreiche Open Source Software. Nicht perfekt, aber eben doch bedienbar, beliebt, erfolgreich, (zumindest im Kern) sicher, weit verbreitet.
Und dann kam Matt in seine Midlife-Crisis oder so?!
In my late teens, I got to watch a friend of my dad's - two good kids, nice house, lovely and successful wife, solid career - decide to burn his entire life down because he wasn't 24 anymore. Sports car, hair dye, divorce, the whole story. Asked my dad if there was any righting that ship; he just shook his head and said "No. He's doomed." I could see how much it hurt him to just... write his friend off like that.
But he was exactly right.
I'm a lifetime older now, and ... I get it, the responsibilities are difficult, the choices I've made mean I have more people depending on me, and less wide-open freedoms as a result, and sometimes my back hurts more than it should. But those freedoms aren't gone, you know? They're just tucked away in the lives of people you care about, and ibuprofen is cheap.
You have to hold onto the idea that life isn't zero sum, and there's such a thing in it as "enough".
@mhoye This resonates with me so hard...
"But those freedoms aren't gone, you know? They're just tucked away in the lives of people you care about, and ibuprofen is cheap."
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