Thanks Lars! For Gnus and for Gmane! For your code, your time, and the (donated because of you) news and web servers.
Don’t beat yourself up over the loss of the domain name. You have given more to your community than most people ever will. Your (structured [0]) procrastination likely lead to your contributions in the first place. So if they lead to some hiccoughs as well, then we, the beneficiaries, can take the bad with the good.
This downtime that seems significant now, may not be. Users of a free service I co-run came back in droves after our similar lack of attention led to an “unexpected” 32bit ID roll-over that took months of downtime to resolve. Our users came back in droves (and though never back to the same level as before) with nothing but thanks after having tried the alternatives. Gmane was a breath of fresh air when you released it, and I suspect nothing compares still today. It may not warrant as much of your time today as it once did. So it goes.
Also, allow someone to help. I never could have handled our failures on my own.
Don’t beat yourself up over the loss of the domain name. You have given more to your community than most people ever will. Your (structured [0]) procrastination likely lead to your contributions in the first place. So if they lead to some hiccoughs as well, then we, the beneficiaries, can take the bad with the good.
This downtime that seems significant now, may not be. Users of a free service I co-run came back in droves after our similar lack of attention led to an “unexpected” 32bit ID roll-over that took months of downtime to resolve. Our users came back in droves (and though never back to the same level as before) with nothing but thanks after having tried the alternatives. Gmane was a breath of fresh air when you released it, and I suspect nothing compares still today. It may not warrant as much of your time today as it once did. So it goes.
Also, allow someone to help. I never could have handled our failures on my own.
[0] http://www.structuredprocrastination.com/