Matt

Fuck yes, I’m totally with you on this! Social media is like a sewer for human thought. With structured-data forums like this one, we used to make real friends. Sometimes we even managed to meet IRL. But now, everyone’s giving up! They say a forum is too hard to manage so better stick to Reddit spending your life shutting up to farm karma, or a Facebook group to go hunting for likes. People are fucking sheep! Specialized forums were what made the web rich and now there’s barely anything independent left. I’ve also stopped responding on social media. Don’t have the patience anymore and don’t want to waste my life on stuff with zero depth. We’re getting close to NF version 8. And I think before we launch it we need to have a serious discussion about the NF environment. This place is like Captain Harlock’s ship. We can’t keep getting pushed around, we need to come out of the shadows and show clearly that in these difficult times the underground is still here. Growth hacking is a strategy. We use it well. But I see it as a booster we need to detach from. It’s started, we need to go further. First off, I propose we communicate more on the forum rather than our private channels to show there’s life here. OK we’re not 10k strong but at least we’ve got quality exchanges. We still have things to prove. I know it sucks to have to prove the obvious. But we’re gonna do it. That’s our challenge. We’re working hard for that. And when it succeeds we’ll be able to say we didn’t work for nothing.

On my end, all the bandit tests passed. There was just one small issue to fix. Done. Can’t wait to wrap this up and move on to the important stuff. After the holidays, I’m counting on you to clean out all those bots that think they’re so clever 😉

Holy shit, it finally works! We’ve got ourselves a killer engine The code is rock solid no more bugs. Let’s stick with what’s working keep it simple, brutally efficient, and nail the UX. Tested on XFCE flawless but notifications are missing. No need to overcomplicate things we’ll just use notify send and call it a day. Still need to test on Fedora, though. We’ve talked about this before, but yeah, let’s push back the release. The heavy lifting is done, and with a little more time, we can drop a polished solution in a few days. So let’s grind hard now and throw a massive party after. Sound good, dudes?

I voted! But I repeat, we also need to think about supporting projects outside the digital realm. There are also low-tech projects that need support.

Yes, let's have fun!