Thank you for summarizing all of this. One of the most frustrating things about these situations is that the relevant information is diffused/spread across multiple platforms, and it makes it harder to determine exactly what is going on, especially when the official OTW announcements don't provide much in the way of context. (The ongoing Twitter instability doesn't help, either, which makes the OTW's discarding of DW even more annoying.)
When the org has the motivation, major changes like this can get accomplished lighting fast!
That's exactly it, and it's so frustrating to watch this play out over and over again! Either there's a crisis that forces them to act and makes changes instantly OR there's a lot of talk but nothing ever happens, and there doesn't seem to be any middle ground. Not only is it a genuinely terrible way to run an organization, it also means I no longer take the OTW seriously when they say they can't do something immediately, because I've seen them do it when something forces their feet to the fire.
One bright spot in all of this is I have a new appreciation for James, whose name I didn't even know until the last few months or so despite his major role in keeping the site functional.
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Thank you for summarizing all of this. One of the most frustrating things about these situations is that the relevant information is diffused/spread across multiple platforms, and it makes it harder to determine exactly what is going on, especially when the official OTW announcements don't provide much in the way of context. (The ongoing Twitter instability doesn't help, either, which makes the OTW's discarding of DW even more annoying.)
When the org has the motivation, major changes like this can get accomplished lighting fast!
That's exactly it, and it's so frustrating to watch this play out over and over again! Either there's a crisis that forces them to act and makes changes instantly OR there's a lot of talk but nothing ever happens, and there doesn't seem to be any middle ground. Not only is it a genuinely terrible way to run an organization, it also means I no longer take the OTW seriously when they say they can't do something immediately, because I've seen them do it when something forces their feet to the fire.
One bright spot in all of this is I have a new appreciation for James, whose name I didn't even know until the last few months or so despite his major role in keeping the site functional.