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I am on Bluesky and sometimes I go look at ![[staff profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user_staff.png)
denise 's feed there.
I remembered that a few years ago she had noticed that Tumblr had a particular job opening, and had speculated about what a person in that role might want to do with the platform.
https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3libfgunrhc2q
https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3libfqau4rk2q
I had not realized that she had applied for that job, and that she had done so partly because she is "very bored."
This feels like information other people who use Dreamwidth might like to know. I had not previously understood that the chief executive of this platform is bored with her current job, and that provides me with a perspective I'm a little uncomfortable with.
EDITED 17 FEB TO SAY (as I said below in a comment): I screwed up here. Yeah. I’ll write about my screw-up at more length later, but I want to at least note here that yeah, I really didn't go about this in a way that foregrounded "I have concerns but I want to share them in a way that is overall supportive of the site".
denise 's feed there.I remembered that a few years ago she had noticed that Tumblr had a particular job opening, and had speculated about what a person in that role might want to do with the platform.
https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3libfgunrhc2q
https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3libfqau4rk2q
I had not realized that she had applied for that job, and that she had done so partly because she is "very bored."
This feels like information other people who use Dreamwidth might like to know. I had not previously understood that the chief executive of this platform is bored with her current job, and that provides me with a perspective I'm a little uncomfortable with.
EDITED 17 FEB TO SAY (as I said below in a comment): I screwed up here. Yeah. I’ll write about my screw-up at more length later, but I want to at least note here that yeah, I really didn't go about this in a way that foregrounded "I have concerns but I want to share them in a way that is overall supportive of the site".
no subject
my perception
Definitely good to have a backup plan.
But:
The facts I discovered today have not caused me to change my assessment of the risk of DW disappearing in, say, the next 2 years.
Paolucci mentions being bored. New existential risks to Dreamwidth seem like the kind of thing a person might find interesting enough that they would overcome boredom.
I think there are noteworthy existing infrastructure, security, and sustainability risks to this platform, and that those have been in place for some time. We don't have two-factor auth. I'm not sure how much engineering time is available for the site or dedicated to ongoing work, and so it feels unclear to me how quickly they would be able to respond in case of a complex outage or a security vulnerability.
Here is how to export your journal. Right now there is no way to download all of it at once -- it's month-by-month -- or to download comments you have made on others' journals (I filed a GitHub issue about that in January 2020).
staffing
Per the staffing situation I mentioned: the Staff page does not mention this, but the programmer co-founder (Mark) works full-time at a different company.