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Wheatly

@gamingonlinux it's kinda funny that instead of hiring someone to submit a patch for their issue, #itsfoss decided to publish the article about their technical problems

The article reads superficial, like vague request for commercial proposal but for free lol

> #Mastodon instance admins, please fix our computer, or else we'll stop reposting to your social network

Folks, this is not journalism...

2 May at 10:03 | Wall-to-wall | Open on masto.ai
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Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

@graphito "just hire someone" is not really a valid thing here though for smaller sites, the article framing was poor given how heavy their site is but the issue behind it does exist

2 May at 10:11 | Open on mastodon.social
Baggypants

@gamingonlinux @graphito It is an issue, especially for self-hosters. I enjoy watching all the victim blaming and denigration that goes along with it, because people pointing out issues with an open source protocol _must_ mean they want to wall garden the entire internet.

2 May at 10:28 | Open on mstdn.social
Wheatly

@gamingonlinux
I admit, similar approach might be justified for small websites (1-2 people) who cannot have budget to deal with technical problems

But surely #itsfoss have the budget to deal with tech. Instead they turned to public activism to save a bit of it.

Why not publish the tech description on freelancer sites and have the patch submitted by monday for $300?

Turns out, to rile up the audience and instance admins is simply cheaper 😳

cc @Baggypants

@gamingonlinux
I admit, similar approach might be justified for small websites (1-2 people) who cannot have budget to deal with technical problems

But surely #itsfoss have the budget to deal with tech. Instead they turned to public activism to save a bit of it.

Why not publish the tech description on freelancer sites and have the patch submitted by monday for $300?

2 May at 10:37 | Open on masto.ai
FinchHaven

@graphito

Can't believe the legs that article got yesterday

Everybody was commenting on it, most clearly without having bothered to read, let alone understand, the article

It said right in the article that their users were seeing an http 504 error intermittently

"504 Gateway Timeout -- This error response is given when the server is acting as a gateway and cannot get a response in time"

And they admitted that Cloudflare was providing CMS

Not that there's any connection

cc @gamingonlinux

2 May at 10:22 | Open on hachyderm.io
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