Thank you both.

Like most of us did

Considering the responses to the thread, I don't think that's true.

Alternative ways to reach the admin team and to be kept aware of anything happening with the server exist.

A lot of people, myself included, are still getting used to Lemmy. The status quo has been if stuff was happening to Reddit there was an easily accessible server status page you could search up. I tried to do the same this time around and Google came up with diddly-squat. I don't think googling Beehaw to figure out what's going on is that illogical of a response.

And how were users supposed to be able to see the sidebar while the server was offline?

A status website would honestly be excellent.

I'll be blunt and say that unless you were already in-the-know, Beehaw pretty much ceased to exist when the server was shut down. Not the best result amidst a hacking scare.

I hadn't heard about Evernote in years. Honestly thought they'd gone under years ago.

Just something Google-friendly.

Typically on Reddit users responded to news about any changes to Windows with complete vitriol, so I'm honestly not surprised it's happening here.

12:30AM EST: I make announcements to tell people about this

I think it'd be beneficial to have more backup lines of communication for announcements than just Mastodon.

I was up-to-date on everything and knew 3rd party apps were shutting down, but it still felt like it wasn't going to happen. One of those 'oh surely they won't let it get that far' moments, but nope. Poof. All gone.

Is there a YouTube alternative that isn't an alt-right cesspit?

Asking the people still posting/commenting if they want a subreddit to stay open seems kind of pointless. Of course they want it to stay open, they didn't care for the blackout in the first place.