"If you want help, help yourself -- people like to see that." - Chris Rock

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[–]Dashing-Dove 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Looking around today, there really aren't that many stable alternatives with similar design, so this project you both took on couldn't have been timelier. Whole communities sought a place to regroup, and now we all get to come along for the ride - which thankfully isn't catastrophically tipping over from the load or eager to censor. I think that's how it often goes, nothing gets done until someone's finally frustrated enough that they say 'fuck it' and do it themselves. It's how I got started with game modding and learned basic coding, because I realized certain things could simply be done better, even by someone with comparatively little experience. Having that validated by others can rewarding too. I love to see my stuff downloaded and actively used.

[–]magnora7[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah I think you're right. And we've spent a lot of time refining the saidit software for others to launch other own saidit-like site. And it's 100x easier to get going than the reddit open source, because we fixed all the major issues it had (which is why no one else is really using it...)

So we hope to not only make a cool site, but make the tools for others to easily also make their own website. Several months ago we already had someone who launched the saidit clone portcity.online. We hope to see more like this, because we've made the tools much easier to use, and added tons of documentation.

So hopefully the next person won't have to be as fed up as I was before they take the first steps in to making their own site!