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My heart goes out to all those system admins who were thinking "wow this is kinda neat" and are suddenly holding a piece of communication infrastructure other people are intent on depending on.

@aredridel i feel like about ten years ago i had a revelation and decided to never again try to build or host a website for other people to post on

eevee

@aredridel when something breaks for ME i can put it off as long as i want

@eevee Right?! It's so much work! Especially when it could suddenly scale like this.

@aredridel ancient internet curse: may your hobby project become popular overnight

@larsbrinkhoff @eevee @aredridel *looks at Gemini* SUPDUP's day will come again

@eevee @aredridel I’ve burned out of these things like three times by now.

@eevee @aredridel A wise man once said "just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu."

@eevee @aredridel hasn't happened to me yet, but who knows? I'm working on building a Legend of Zelda backpack and a 256 square retro pixel art Mario quilt. 😸

@eevee @aredridel it's bad enough having a small github project with a couple of support requests a year.