Putt will answer our questions soon. Atko lurks Voat, and given that he was likely not on vacation at the same time Putt (seems to have been), he noticed Voat was down while lurking and so emerged from the shadows to first reassure people, and then ultimately address the issue with whatever admin access he still has. Might have been as simple as a server restart, who knows?
There is absolutely no denying that things that Putt does do but it's time for him to appoint/assign a backup admin and dev. If he goes on vacation, gets hit by a buy, gets arkancided, or continues to do less for the less than he has been doing, the backup can step in. We can't count on Atko again. There's absolutely no excuse, volunteer position or not, for that kind of consolidation because it leads to spectacular failures like the outage we just experienced. Supposing he'd been run over by a car? We'd be fucked and Atko would have had to step in to appoint someone new. And no matter how you spin it, there is absolutely no excuse for what happened. None. It can only be explained as a lack of leadership.
Putt should stay as a dev, it's where he excels. His admin decisions and follow-through haven't even been in the same galaxy as "stellar."
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12567718? ago
https://voat.co/v/whatever/2514218/12567658
Putt will answer our questions soon. Atko lurks Voat, and given that he was likely not on vacation at the same time Putt (seems to have been), he noticed Voat was down while lurking and so emerged from the shadows to first reassure people, and then ultimately address the issue with whatever admin access he still has. Might have been as simple as a server restart, who knows?
So hold off on the poems for now.
totes_magotes ago
There is absolutely no denying that things that Putt does do but it's time for him to appoint/assign a backup admin and dev. If he goes on vacation, gets hit by a buy, gets arkancided, or continues to do less for the less than he has been doing, the backup can step in. We can't count on Atko again. There's absolutely no excuse, volunteer position or not, for that kind of consolidation because it leads to spectacular failures like the outage we just experienced. Supposing he'd been run over by a car? We'd be fucked and Atko would have had to step in to appoint someone new. And no matter how you spin it, there is absolutely no excuse for what happened. None. It can only be explained as a lack of leadership.
Putt should stay as a dev, it's where he excels. His admin decisions and follow-through haven't even been in the same galaxy as "stellar."
MaunaLoona ago
I don't see a need as long as Atko is around and willing to step in if something that drastic happens.