in many ways AH is one of the highest quality and most valuable subreddits on the site. it's such an important organization that really should live on outside of reddit, but obviously it only got so big because it was part of that ecosystem. I think I might mourn AH more than my smaller niche subs even though I don't go there often if it does end uo disappearing. I really hope they can migrate successfully somewhere else.
I'll use common names in conversation, but I prefer taxonomic naming when labeling things. Some things have no common names, some have many, and some share common names with other things. to me that's reason to avoid them for identification
I get a ton of this near creeks in my area too. It's delicious, but watch out for a poisonous lookalike (not smellalike) that can grow in the same spots.
I don't think it's fair to say nothing is changing, but "dying" admittedly seems like hyperbole.
Organizations can die slowly or not at all but still be gravely damaged. They are almost certainly making these moves to capture the least critical (most profitable) portions of their userbases and hunker down for survival. Even if the change is extremely painful, they're (likely) planning for the specific goal of avoiding total death.
I'm in a very similar boat as you, and I often feel frustrated with how much there is I'm not keeping track of. But I don't really like coding side projects in my free time, so I just learn as deeply as I can about the frameworks my works teams are using. It tends to pay off insofar as people can usually tell that I've done research, so at the very least it helps me less less insecure...
I keep meaning to build something interesting in svelte. I was very excited about it a couple years ago and rebuilt a super simple version of the homepage of my primary site, but I didn't really feel like it made sense in the way React does (admittedly, I've worked with React a lot more...). What's your favorite thing about working in svelte?
I'm not a very social person so for me the worst part is feeling left out of the community. I'm very happy to be queer. But I also live in a place where I don't always feel comfortable being visible - those experiences make me hate my surroundings, not my identity.
in many ways AH is one of the highest quality and most valuable subreddits on the site. it's such an important organization that really should live on outside of reddit, but obviously it only got so big because it was part of that ecosystem. I think I might mourn AH more than my smaller niche subs even though I don't go there often if it does end uo disappearing. I really hope they can migrate successfully somewhere else.