Thank you @teodorlu. I agree and am very happy with how this place turned out. That is really all due to the merit of the community itself, I just provide the space and keep the lights on, it’s the people that make it what it is.
Still I sometimes worry that I’m too hands off. I only check in here occasionally these days, and looking at the list of people with moderator privileges I don’t think many of them are still particularly active. I don’t think that’s actively a problem, things seem to be going well, but I don’t want this place to be rudderless either.
Seeing two topics go toxic in a short timespan was a bit of a wake up call. Eventually I became aware because some posts were reported, but maybe it would have been better to step in a little earlier…
I’ve asked @seancorfield and @daslu and they graciously agreed to be co-moderators. If things keep going well then they may have very little to do, but I’ll feel better knowing that there’s someone else who can help people out and solve issues should they arrive.
And maybe we do end up managing this place a bit more proactively again. We’ve mostly been coasting on the effort we put in with the relaunch and rebranding to ClojureVerse 4 years ago. Back then we created the categories, the logo, set up a CoC, tweaked the configuration to our liking, tried to promote this place. We also did stuff afterwards like running AMAs. I think this community could benefit from some motivated individuals to help steer, grow, and improve it. I personally have too much going on already to take the lead on that, but I’d 100% provide my backing if a suitable candidate would want to take that on.