[00:01:18] if nothing else board is as close to a platform leadership as exists, and some leadership and directive is a much needed ingredient for miraheze [00:01:41] if only by virtue of board members as community leaders organizing things more than the board itself as an entity, since the duties of that entity are a bit narrow and simple [00:03:14] [1/2] * remember to feed the servers [00:03:14] [2/2] * dont get sued [00:11:20] yuh [01:45:49] Yep, exactly so. Board is inherently and intentionally a weak entity - it's a financial and legal caretaker to enable the space for the project to continue operating and evolving, making decisions when they're needed. [01:46:50] Part of the slowdown on meetings is that a lot of the baseline stakes have already been debated and finalized w/r/t foundation policy [01:47:35] Where real action continues are projects driven in a personal capacity/initiative [02:03:24] Totally agree on this point. I'm hoping next month will be a substantial downturn in my other obligations, which'll afford me time to do more of this type of planning/championing. [02:03:57] Hopefully we can all get some good things brewing with more bandwidth at our disposal [02:26:44] queue the summer montage! [02:41:02] Hot Miraheze summerrrrrrrr [02:45:13] mandatory desert sequence where we are trying to find more victims the necronomicon more water for the servers more volunteers [03:21:59] Re: stalled RfCs, from my perspective, it feels like RfCs in drafting are easy to forget, especially if there's a lot of stuff to fix about it and whoever proposes it loses momentum/drive to edit it extensively. [03:24:12] To me, it feels like a visible single-topic blogpost (or if we're going back to the ye olde days: a forum threads) where all discussion on an RfC can be consolidated and users can speak to each other about only that topic in a back-and-forth could be more useful for moving individual RfCs forward than just a general update blogpost. [03:25:08] Like, Talk pages are nice, but it's hard to get a back-and-forth going between multiple people on them, you know? While the nature of Discord means conversations are easily lost/buried, with forum threads on Discord easily being forgotten since they can be hidden from channel lists. [10:37:27] momentum loss is often exactly it, and is clear cut in the case of the commons rfc [10:38:04] this was kind of the impetuous behind miraheze meetings as well where multiple ongoing affairs could be discussed in one burst, but coordination problems have lead to that struggling badly and currently having died off [10:38:44] forum would be nice but I'm biased and doubt a classical forum would sell well in this age for miraheze [10:40:20] although I have kind of wondered about there being a general wiki farm space forum anyway for the heck of it, perhaps something like nodebb with federated integration [10:54:50] I'm definitely biased in favor of forums since that's what I grew up on. I still lurk on a few though I don't post quite as often anymore. [12:40:43] I think the asynchronous nature of forums helps keep discussions going in the long-term [13:21:14] as long as people don't just 'forget' to use it which seems to be the experience common to platforms that have been usurped by discord et al [13:22:35] wonder if it would be possible for us to spin up something usable on low resources, credible in having the reach to actually make progress on community affairs, but which is not yet another burden on the tech team [13:22:48] if it could sso with meta that would be very neat [19:48:48] For some reason, when I click on the button to code edit, the first 2 lines are hidden by the ms upload bar... anyways to fix it? I tried removing the bar, but it doesnt fix the issue. I have to click on preview everytime if I want to fix it.