http://rstat.us is dead. Long live rstat.us?
Hey everyone,
As you may have noticed, I have been a Bad Open Source Maintainer and I have not been doing even the minimum amount of maintenance on either the codebase or the main node living at http://rstat.us.
Wilkie has been poking around the code lately, and I'm encouraged because he's got his own node running.
Which brings me to the point of this email-- growing http://rstat.us was never the dream of this project, the dream was to have everyone owning and operating their own nodes that would talk to each other.
So unless someone speaks up and would like to take ownership of the domain and associated resources of rstat.us, I'm going to shut the main node down at the end of August.
Or perhaps put it in read-only mode to allow people to export their content, I'm not sure yet (that requires more work).
These are the big issues that are contributing to my demotivation and desire to shut the main node down right now:
- http://rstat.us has a huge spam problem and we have no system in place to deal with it.
- The OStatus standard has been largely abandoned by other projects, which leaves us with little or no interop except with other nodes running the rstat.us codebase.
- There is no support for changing the appearance of sites running the rstatus codebase, which I imagine is one of the first things someone would want to do running their own node.
- I tried getting rstat.us to work with mobile apps and failed.
- http://rstat.us needs some maintenance like renewing the SSL cert.
I don't really want to discuss potential solutions in this thread because I don't have the desire to implement any of them. If you do, please let me hand you the keys.
!m @carols10cents @wilkie