In this post I am speaking as a Beehaw fanatic and not as an admin. That is why it is placed in the chat community. To be clear, I am not speaking on behalf of the Beehaw admin team nor the community as a whole.
Currently, we have $5,430 that is in our collective purse to be used to further this endeavor. When I take a step back, and look at that amount of money, I am humbled. That is hope…it is an expression of where we want to go and what we want to preserve.
You may be wondering where we are with the testing of alternative platforms and any other considerations.
The testing phase, as far as I can tell, is over. We are, I believe, in a stage of digesting all of it. And, I have a feeling, that we are holding out hope that there could be other options we haven’t encountered yet.
I appreciate the patience of everyone involved and I don’t want to make a hasty decision.
Thankfully, we have had persons such as PenguinCoder to rescue us from the huge Reddit exodus and all the technical problems associated with the Lemmy software platform that we rely on right now.
There have been whispers that PenguinCoder could be working on a new platform for the Beehaw project.
Thank you all for grabbing onto our northern star, be(e) nice, and running with it.
It seems like eventually you guys are just going to wind up on an message board. At the end of the day it seems what beehaw wants more than anything is just a safe well maintained space to discuss and isnt hung up on federation or growth.
Federation was a nice way to be(e) seen and get new like minded members, but if the lack of mod tools make curating this community difficult, then its not a good fit. Unless some better lemmy compatible alternative or fork rises that gives you what you need, it sounds like the choice will inevitably be what kind of message board software you want to run.
If there were a good forum software that had decent threading and strong mod tools, I would honestly be fine with that. I have no interest nor investment in federation. As it stands right now, it’s a liability that allows a community to be overrun from sources that are totally out of your control.
Agreed and that is something we are aiming for with whatever software we’ve been looking at. Good user experience and mod tools.