Thank you for the transparency! It is important to remember that it's not just the amazing work the mods do here but there is a real cost to running this.
Not quite the same puzzley aspect but check out etrian Odyssey. It's premise essentially is that you have a dungeon crawler and you have to make the map yourself. There are tools in game for making the map as you go.
I got to see them open up for timecop 1983 a few years back. Effectively unknown they instantaneously won everyone at the show over with "Heaven's servant". Thanks for sharing this! I missed that they had some new music.
Something like status-page is always nice. I haven't used it but it looks like https://cachethq.io/ could be a decent fit as well.
The email comparison is pretty apt. I think one of the things they eventually had to deal with was reputation of different entities. Right now it's essentially a boolean situation for the various server admins to identify things that could cause trouble and take preventative steps of blocking or not blocking them.
We would need to answer so e questions around how to quantify what good behavior looks like in lemmy that aren't trivial to game/bypass.
I'm loving all of the TUIs cropping up lately. Thanks for sharing!
I swear half of the posts on the relay subreddit previously were just various gif playback issues. It seems like it should be easy but in reality is surprisingly nuanced and difficult