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It seems that the dev burned out.

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[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 79 points 1 day ago (25 children)

This project has been discontinued and the repo archived. I am done with Lemmy, the Fediverse as a whole, and have no desire to continue developing for the platform or (especially) the demographic thereof.

Wow, what the heck happened? Do we know the dev's lemmy username for any clues?

[–] AlexisFR@jlai.lu 62 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's a combination of a burn out and a close friend (also moderator of the 30rock community on Dubvee) ending up in a coma, it seems.

[–] SatyrSack@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 1 day ago

Where are you seeing mention that the coma contributed to the choice to discontinue? I see in the !30rock@dubvee.org post that the community will be shut down despite the fact that the only mod is not able to even protest that decision or anything, but no other mention.

[–] Philamand@jlai.lu 27 points 1 day ago (21 children)
[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 70 points 1 day ago

Thanks for that context.

The specific "burned out" is a common killer among folks that try this: community management

"Well, two years in, and I cannot say this place is any better, just differently bad if not worse. Too many people here seem to think that because it's not "corpo social media" that anything goes, and boy do some people really run with that."

I can't say I blame them. People can be horrible. Managing a community also means managing the worst of people. I had a former employer that did community management of a dating site. The level of mental trauma the front line workers endured was more than I could imagine. This is also why I completely understand instance admins that follow an aggressive blocking/banning approach. Beehaw put up tall walls and defederated aplenty. Blahaj.zone actively bans based upon user activity that is even on other unrelated instances. I can't fault either of these approaches because the alternative is dealing with the worst users en masse.

I hope that instance owner/manager gets some of that much deserved rest.

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago

Apparently, reading the details on there - he might not shut it down.

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[–] Skavau@piefed.social 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No idea, but it's not an active instance so idk what happened.

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[–] scytale@lemmy.zip 63 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The average Lemming has the nuance of a wrecking ball

He’s not wrong lol. I can imagine how much worse it is as an admin. It’s unfortunate that Tesseract is going down with the ship. I remember I was among the first to provide feedback when he first posted it on lemmy.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 1 day ago

Also described himself there

[–] teddyt@feddit.org 55 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] gheesh@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Me too. If It had been, I would have needed another way of ALT'ing screenshots from other social networks.

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[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 47 points 1 day ago (12 children)

Considering this is a Svelte project, it probably wouldn’t be too hard for me to fork (I’m a Svelte and SvelteKit dev). I’d definitely rewrite the UI, cause the current UI is… unpolished.

How much support could I expect to fork this project? Is there anyone that would be willing to help?

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 36 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Better contribute to Photon, which Tesseract was forked from originally.

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[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's a real shame, and a huge loss.

Friendly reminder that the only way lemmy can be successful is if we create a culture that is enjoyable to be a part of. It sounds like his time here was not so positive, and that's deeply saddening.

I wish him the best with his future endeavors

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Much more important than the enjoyable culture is the material aspect - how much work each developer has to do. Nice vibes help delay burnout but rarely eliminate it. Or they let it happen with a smile on the face.

Pay the developers instead, so they can reduce hours worked elsewhere, if you can. Or contribute code, if you can. This isn't aimed at you personally, but anyone reading. I can't contribute code but I can pay so I do that.

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[–] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 1 day ago

rip to the best client 🥹 and thank you for everything you've done PTZ.

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 day ago

Godspeed to @ptz@dubvee.org, hopefully we'll meet again virtually some day 🫡

[–] whaleross@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

There are terrible people everywhere and in particular everywhere online.

This is why I would never be bothered moderating and I am reluctant to release anything to the public of what I do for my own enjoyment. Cheers to moderators and people that post their art and comics and other stuff online.

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Lemmchen@feddit.org 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

OP's link works in Raccoon, the threadiverse one doesn't.

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 day ago

Same with Mlem.

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[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Probably from so many people asking stupid questions.

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[–] a_person@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago
[–] tisktisk@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

That was supposedly the best front-end we had, right? Sad to hear--I hope I can become good enough to help revive projects like this.
On a sidenote, what other frontends are to be used in the meantime? I'm hoping one of the few is still being maintained somewhat

[–] Xylight@lemdro.id 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not to advertise, but you could try Photon. It's what Tesseract was forked from wayyy back as me and the tesseract dev's philosophies split.

It's more opinionated, and features are carefully organized compared to Tesseract where plenty of shortcuts and links are given (which isn't bad at all, just targets different preferences).

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[–] scytale@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

If you’re on desktop, Alexandrite is great. The 2-column view really maximizes screen real estate.

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