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I'm echoing some of my previous comments because this post resonates quite a bit with me. Ultimately, an ecosystem is only as good as its community and that's w
by potamic 4y ago
I'm echoing some of my previous comments because this post resonates quite a bit with me. Ultimately, an ecosystem is only as good as its community and that's where I believe the root lies.
The community has not figured out how to maintain software. There is an unhealthy zeal towards building, so much so that the ecosystem is in a constant building phase with things being hacked up continuously. This is where the community needs to step in and nudge the ecosystem towards stability. They need to vote with their wallet with adopting and promoting the right software. There needs to be a certain amount of skepticism towards new ideas and regard for established ones. Stubbornness to change can be a wonderful attribute. Sometimes not doing something can be the best solution. But this kind of thinking is something I feel is somewhat missing here. Rather there seems to be incredible willingness to put up with pain to the point of being detrimental.
- WorldMaker 4y agoThe Ghost community is paid to run a SaaS and supporting self-hosters is somewhat incidental to their business model. That community already is voting with their wallets and this poster was expecting to get better free support from a software company with incentives that don't align with the poster's. ("Non-profit" or not, it's still a software company getting paid to run a SaaS that incidentally allows self-hosting.)