Related to the date, its interesting watching the interaction between frontend apps and the backends. You can more or less vendor lockin your backend, for a ve

Related to the date, its interesting watching the interaction between frontend apps and the backends. You can more or less vendor lockin your backend, for a very short time, if you have a decent frontend app like chanu. That is being worked around extremely quickly and actively, and that likely explains the whole oct 1st thing. Compare this with the schism of slashdot and soylentnews. There is no dominant frontend for slashdot other than chromium so the schism happened a little faster.