For other djangonauts out there: this is an excellent guide for migrating a production app to a custom User model BUT you need to deploy all the changes up to step 5 to all your deployments (prod, stage, etc). Then proceed with the guide and deploy again at the end of it.

https://testdriven.io/blog/django-custom-user-model-migration/

Hey all, I've begun the process of transitioning the management of pdx.social over to a group of folks. I've been running the site since 2017 and it feels like its time for some new energy.

The new team consists of @agnes who will be leading community engagement and moderation as well as @tedder & @hanse00 who will be handling the technical side of things. Big shout out to them for stepping up to volunteer! ❤️

Well folks I've had my mind changed. I had said that I would wait and see on federating with Threads but after reading this excellent article (https://erinkissane.com/untangling-threads) its clear that Meta is unwilling to moderate their content and should be suspended. Previously I thought the issue was allow users to opt-out of their data being seen by Meta but Threads is allowing real harm to occur we simply shouldn't network with them.

If you're a pdx.social user and feel otherwise please DM me.

🧵🔨