Ohai folks! Since we don't have any solid data to base our decisions on, here is a quick #diaspora poll. Please participate if you see this, and if you have a high reach, a reshare would be appreciated, too, since we want as much feedback as possible.
We're aware that having an English-only poll isn't ideal, but it's kinda the best thing we can do right now, so please bear with us. Feel free to post comments using a translator service if your choice if you want, we certainly don't mind.
Thank you! ❤
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Daniel Doubet
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Amina das Jojo
•@diaspora* HQ
I'm interested what decisions are going to be made that you need these data for.
And you didn't ask for our opinions, only for our knowledge about and use of said feature. I like Diaspora, because it's conservative in the sense that I can rely on the fact that it is simple, transparent, and changes for the "better" (read "worse") that I've regularly experienced on other networks seem not so likely.
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Dennis Schubert
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Yeah. Deliberately so.
The current services integration is, to use an appropriate description, a bit of a dumpsterfire. We already decided to remove the code for the Twitter integration (because it was broken anyway), and because one of the internal dependencies caused pain during a dependency update I did last week that already took way more time than planned and was blocking a security update (the one we released on Tuesday).
diaspora* is already in a bad place where there are more things to do than there is available capacity (and - to be quite frank with you - in my case, motivation and desire), so spending a surprisingly large amount of time hacking around crusty old features that almost nobody is using isn't a super wise approach. We now consider removing all services, i.e. Wordpress and Tumblr, which are the only two remaining.
This poll is designed to
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Yeah. Deliberately so.
The current services integration is, to use an appropriate description, a bit of a dumpsterfire. We already decided to remove the code for the Twitter integration (because it was broken anyway), and because one of the internal dependencies caused pain during a dependency update I did last week that already took way more time than planned and was blocking a security update (the one we released on Tuesday).
diaspora* is already in a bad place where there are more things to do than there is available capacity (and - to be quite frank with you - in my case, motivation and desire), so spending a surprisingly large amount of time hacking around crusty old features that almost nobody is using isn't a super wise approach. We now consider removing all services, i.e. Wordpress and Tumblr, which are the only two remaining.
This poll is designed to get a rough idea how many users would be affected by that.
Asking for "opinions", as in "do you think we should remove Wordpress and Tumblr" sadly isn't nearly as productive as you probably imagine it to be. When asking about adding features, there's always at least one person who is really into that, and when asking about removing features, there's always at least one person who would consider that a total deal-breaker.
Those people are right, of course, and I'd believe their opinion, but this is one of those "you can't please everyone" kind of situations. The core question that @Benjamin Neff and me had was "if we get rid of that stuff to make our maintenance lives easier, how many angry people would we have yelling at us". We already know the number would be non-zero, and.. that's okay and expected. But since we have almost little insight into usage patterns from average users in this regard, we have to make sure we're not just incredibly naive and would end up removing something that is actively in use by a large number of people.
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Amina das Jojo
•Thank you for explaining, and thank you for your work.
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Esky
•Freezr
•It is a shame the best social media platform has been struggling so much...
I wonder if a third server able to translate calls from Diaspora Protocol to AP and viceversa, as the one implemented for the ATP protocol, could help Diaspora to come back in the game... 🤔🤷♂️
Wolfgang Strobl
•Chap
•I post via email to a Wordpress blog, but if I want to share on diaspora I just copy-and-paste the URL into a diaspora post.
Diaspora is awesome because it doesn't have a whole boatload of features that people don't even both with or even want. It's simple UI makes it the easiest to learn of all the "Fediverse" platforms. Uncluttered, intuitive, simple.
I also really like that you build your experience here on diaspora: It won't suggest "people you may know" or "stuff you might like." It takes time to make it what I want it to be, just following #hashtags and #profiles at first, then following people and using #aspects to make "groups."
Cross-posting is nice I guess, for the half-dozen or so people who bother with it, but I'd rather see it easier for devs and podmins to manage by doing without those extra features, than to see it "die on the vine" because it's too much to manage or develop for the generous few who do the work behind the scenes.
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