Let me begin by saying I've sunk over 3 months of my life into this project, with the hope of bringing about a non-commercial, transparent, optionally anonymous alternative to reddit.
I feel like the project is finally close enough to feature complete to take a step back from development. Of course there is still a never-ending list of things to do, or be improved, but I simply cannot justify spending any additional time past what I have already invested (a quarter of a year) at my current position in life on a project which may or may not be used, while forgoing all income aside from inconsistent bug bounty payouts and (lol) runescape botting. Even if this project never sees use, I'll never view the time invested as lost. It certainly re-sharpened my dev skills after over a year of atrophy, and has directly resulted in many invaluable interactions/experiences I would not have had otherwise.
Thank you to EVERYBODY who has contributed in some way to this project.
It's honestly quite impactful emotionally to step back from daily development on a project which has been your primary concern and focus for the past quarter year year of your life, and to admit it hasn't (yet?) sustained the consistent level of use it set out to achieve. The question of 'what do I do now' is daunting, but it HAS to be something which brings in, preferably consistent, income. Realistically, my options are 1. Focus on bug bountys full time, 2. Start (seriously) looking for and applying to fulltime dev/security positions, or 3. Focus on independent, commercial ( but still open-source) work
I obviously will still use the site daily, actively post any life events, traveling, bug bounty writeups, new projects, etc, and comment/moderate. I'll probably will even still commit code fairly often, I just cannot justify the full-time hours I have put into it daily for the past several months.
I'll continue to link this site anywhere that it is relevant, and ask that (you) kindly do the same. If there comes a time in which the internet decides a site like this is needed, it will be here. If the site once again achieves a significant level of use, I'll re-prioritize development accordingly.
I've also decided to hold off on the name change until the community overwhelmingly deems it as something which should happen.
Thank you again to EVERYBODY who has contributed in any way to this project. Whether that be code, moderation, or posts/comments/votes. I love you all, even https://ieddit.com/u/adolf-hitler/ who was the only person I had to ban for the first 2 months of this project. You all have been great <3
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That is what killed the site yes, and it wasn't abandoned. It was an extremely difficult bug to identify in somebody else's code, as it wasn't replicateable and would only occur randomly after several hours/days of normal site operation., While at the same time, for the entire week, I was having to travel and literally didn't have the ability to work on the site.
I put literally hundreds of hours of my time into this without any pay whatsoever, trust me I wasn't happy about it either.
This place is a cozy little hidey hole on the web that you made, and people like it. Go make bigger and better things! Obviously you have what it takes.
Hey man, you gotta do something to feed yourself right? The site will still be here unless you take it offline for some reason and since we don't have a ton of people I doubt the site will break either.
For now you can just think of this place as a semi-blog I guess :^)
The site will still be here unless you take it offline for some reason and since we don't have a ton of people I doubt the site will break either.
I can assure you the site won't EVER go offline, barring something catastrophic happening to me.
For now you can just think of this place as a semi-blog I guess :^)
I'm actually starting to work on a project which I intend to be a very lightweight flask-based blog. This time around I'll do everything correctly from the start as well. I'll use the domain I bought, anolag.com, and there will be some... interesting writing on there for sure. I'll also be able to monetize this project with adsense.
Regardless of what might turn out from this, you've done an awesome job. Also the experience you got from this is irreplaceable. BTW, have you posted the website on HackerNews again? That's how I first came across it and admittedly it's come a long way from that first iteration.
Dude what? This is the best anti censorship clone that exists. We are about to enter into an election year and I can guarantee "they" are locked and loaded. When they pull the trigger and people are looking for alternatives, this is gonna be a top option. Voat closed their registration and only allows old accounts to downvote (which means any and all new accounts downvote everything), and Saidit bans people for not following the founder's envision of proper debate rules (aka the "pyramid").
The site has no major glitches. and is very easy to find. Just stick it out breh. I feel like the fat kid volunteering himself in a relay race but if yall need any help just tell me what youtube vids about Flask or C++ to watch and what you need. Your website is great man. You got a great idea and I hope you don't abandon it.
I feel like the project is finally close enough to feature complete to take a step back from development. Of course there is still a never-ending list of things to do, or be improved, but I simply cannot justify spending any additional time past what I have already invested (a quarter of a year) at my current position in life on a project which may or may not be used, while forgoing all income aside from inconsistent bug bounty payouts and (lol) runescape botting. Even if this project never sees use, I'll never view the time invested as lost. It certainly re-sharpened my dev skills after over a year of atrophy, and has directly resulted in many invaluable interactions/experiences I would not have had otherwise.
Thank you to EVERYBODY who has contributed in some way to this project.
It's honestly quite impactful emotionally to step back from daily development on a project which has been your primary concern and focus for the past quarter year year of your life, and to admit it hasn't (yet?) sustained the consistent level of use it set out to achieve. The question of 'what do I do now' is daunting, but it HAS to be something which brings in, preferably consistent, income. Realistically, my options are 1. Focus on bug bountys full time, 2. Start (seriously) looking for and applying to fulltime dev/security positions, or 3. Focus on independent, commercial ( but still open-source) work
I obviously will still use the site daily, actively post any life events, traveling, bug bounty writeups, new projects, etc, and comment/moderate. I'll probably will even still commit code fairly often, I just cannot justify the full-time hours I have put into it daily for the past several months.
I'll continue to link this site anywhere that it is relevant, and ask that (you) kindly do the same. If there comes a time in which the internet decides a site like this is needed, it will be here. If the site once again achieves a significant level of use, I'll re-prioritize development accordingly.
I've also decided to hold off on the name change until the community overwhelmingly deems it as something which should happen.
Thank you again to EVERYBODY who has contributed in any way to this project. Whether that be code, moderation, or posts/comments/votes. I love you all, even https://ieddit.com/u/adolf-hitler/ who was the only person I had to ban for the first 2 months of this project. You all have been great <3