I'm not going to apologise for stating that there should have been a page I could have reached via a Google search.

One has to begin to think that you're doing this in bad faith

I said you were rude because you started talking down to and attacking me directly as a person. That's not ok.

Thank you both.

Given that you aren't in any of the groups, nor following their mastodon account. I don't think what you think based on the responses on a sole thread has any merit

I'm gonna say this only once, but that's an incredibly rude thing to say. I was giving you the benefit of the doubt in my previous reply but it's obvious now that you're just treating me like an idiot.

I think what I've had to say has merit. Given the upvotes there are obviously some others following the conversation that share my view. Even if there wasn't though, I'd still think it's important that I spoke up.

Like most of us did

Considering the responses to the thread, I don't think that's true.

Alternative ways to reach the admin team and to be kept aware of anything happening with the server exist.

A lot of people, myself included, are still getting used to Lemmy. The status quo has been if stuff was happening to Reddit there was an easily accessible server status page you could search up. I tried to do the same this time around and Google came up with diddly-squat. I don't think googling Beehaw to figure out what's going on is that illogical of a response.

And how were users supposed to be able to see the sidebar while the server was offline?

Having an entirely separate website, blog, or social media account for announcements that's accessible via a Google search wouldn't factor into how secure Beehaw is.

A status website would honestly be excellent.

I'll be blunt and say that unless you were already in-the-know, Beehaw pretty much ceased to exist when the server was shut down. Not the best result amidst a hacking scare.

I hadn't heard about Evernote in years. Honestly thought they'd gone under years ago.

Just something Google-friendly.

Typically on Reddit users responded to news about any changes to Windows with complete vitriol, so I'm honestly not surprised it's happening here.

12:30AM EST: I make announcements to tell people about this

I think it'd be beneficial to have more backup lines of communication for announcements than just Mastodon.

Vendors will up the cost to cover additional labour, the books won't be in the school budget anymore and conservatives'll have got what they wanted

But if it's the Grail, it'll automagically refill with Jesus' blood!

I'm gonna take a wild guess and say the reason why gfycat integrated into basically everything was because they launched themselves at the tech giants and gave everything for basically nothing.

I thought it was pretty suss that they suddenly showed up on every platform.

Considering it's a heavily regulated industry, I think what you're asking for is impossible.

I was up-to-date on everything and knew 3rd party apps were shutting down, but it still felt like it wasn't going to happen. One of those 'oh surely they won't let it get that far' moments, but nope. Poof. All gone.

Is there a YouTube alternative that isn't an alt-right cesspit?

Asking the people still posting/commenting if they want a subreddit to stay open seems kind of pointless. Of course they want it to stay open, they didn't care for the blackout in the first place.

Is this supposed to be some kind of gotcha so Reddit can say 'hah, you used the app to look at Reddit!'?