Starting off my week with a crown on a molar that decided that chewing wasn’t really an activity it wanted to participate in. Heartened by how my team performed on last Friday when I took a day off, and there were some escalations/failures.

That looks fantastic!

Thanks for sharing! I appreciate it!

Why shouldn’t work be fun? Why is there an expectation of misery in exchange for living?

Why shouldn’t work be fun? Why is there an expectation of misery in exchange for living?

I kind of feel like a weirdo for not chatting a lot, I guess?

Gosh! This takes me back! What a great game!

I tend to play a lot of the old text-tile games that I cut my teeth on back starting with Angband. Any of those variants are enjoyable, but I pretty much stick to Zangband (Angband adding in the work of Zelazny) and frogcomposband (It's a mouthfull, but FUN).

It's kind of the defining line between "community as a product" and "community as a platform." What is offered and provided is a platform for all of us to work together to build and sustain a community. What we're used to is the other type, where there has always been a drive to monetize the experience. It's like the fallacy that content creators owe their audience anything other than the content they've already provided. The people here running and moderating the community have my respect and admiration, because it's not something I'd willingly step into, knowing the unrealistic expectations of most Internet participants.

This is some good news. I don’t have a deep or intelligent comment beyond, “nice.”

I think you hit on one of the key points. Every other time this same pattern has played out, each of those sites becomes a shadow of what they once were, but the continue because (to be blunt) running Internet sites is CHEAP.

Really, it's totally in the category "when you're getting something for free, you're not the audience, but rather the product."

When people failed to buy in very deeply to the tchotchkes to "pay" for Reddit, it was the last gasp of any effort other than wholesaling the dataset to advertisers and anyone willing to pay for the content.

My break from Reddit wasn't driven by any one single act, but rather the continued (and organized) sanitization of the Internet to appease conservative, Christian investors who make demands on the morality of the content of a site.