The State of Mark: Dreamwidth
Sep. 7th, 2010 10:41 pm![[staff profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user_staff.png){kind=small}
markSomething I've been meaning to write about, but there's never really a good time, so hey.
One of the best things about building a really awesome foundation on something is that, eventually, you can take a step back and let things continue to go and grow and feel entirely confident that things aren't going to go off the rails without you. Over the past six months I've been reducing my role on Dreamwidth and am recently at the point where I'm really not doing a lot on the site day to day.
I'm still helping out when really needed and I will continue to make myself available for middle-of-the-night site breakages and other problems that need immediate redress. However, I am not taking an active role in the management or development of the project on a day-to-day basis. For any of that, you should talk todenise and/or ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
fu. They're awesome and I have complete confidence in the future of Dreamwidth with them at the helm.
I think that's the salient part.
One of the best things about building a really awesome foundation on something is that, eventually, you can take a step back and let things continue to go and grow and feel entirely confident that things aren't going to go off the rails without you. Over the past six months I've been reducing my role on Dreamwidth and am recently at the point where I'm really not doing a lot on the site day to day.
I'm still helping out when really needed and I will continue to make myself available for middle-of-the-night site breakages and other problems that need immediate redress. However, I am not taking an active role in the management or development of the project on a day-to-day basis. For any of that, you should talk to
denise and/or fu. They're awesome and I have complete confidence in the future of Dreamwidth with them at the helm.I think that's the salient part.
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Date: 2010-09-08 05:44 am (UTC)I'm glad the site has the flexibility and structure to support this, though, and I hope you're enjoying the break.
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Date: 2010-09-08 06:18 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-09-08 02:49 pm (UTC)Good luck with your new projects. And don't worry--you've done a good job here.
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Date: 2010-09-08 06:18 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-09-08 07:02 pm (UTC)I've known for some time that this was going to happen, as you know, but it's still sad when it does happen. I wish you the very best.
To those wondering what'll become of Dreamwidth: Don't worry. As Mark says in this post, he's been reducing his roles bit by bit, but not without making sure someone else can do it. The servers are still in good hands. :)
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Date: 2010-09-08 07:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-09 06:01 am (UTC)Thanks very much for creating this place, along with
I'm supposing you'll still be posting here though, yeah, if you post anywhere, since you helped create the best site of all on which to do that sort of thing. lol :D
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Date: 2010-09-09 11:37 am (UTC)2) Best of luck with whatever fills most of your time from now on.
3) As your life is not our business and you don't owe us an explanation, should we assume that if you wanted us to know why you're doing this then you'd have told us?
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Date: 2010-09-10 04:16 am (UTC)Inasmuch as this isn't goodbye, per se, this is still a pretty good time to say: thanks for your huge part in launching Dreamwidth and giving us a blogging site and community we can trust and love. =)
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Date: 2010-09-14 07:04 pm (UTC)I'll be honest because I'm always painfully so: I've been very disappointed with the way this announcement has been made. I expected it from you, in news, when you took the other job and not months later. I expected answers to questions your users might have, about your new role, about who's doing what now, about how this changed things or didn't, about the status of the things you used to work on (or still do, I dunno). I expected you would talk to volunteers involved in development some way and explain why things had gotten much slower and why patches stayed in the queue for weeks (some are still there, I believe, because nobody can or wants to review them) and why things may have gotten a little tense. I didn't expected concerns being minimized, and things mentioned in passing as if it wasn't a big deal and our concerns weren't valid. That's what LJ has gotten us used to. Not DW. And the more I read about this in entries and comments here and there, the more disappointed I get. I wish I had something positive to say. I've actually stared at this entry for several minutes trying to come up with something but I couldn't. I'm just very, very disappointed.