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@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ I initially envisioned the exozyme project to be something like envs.net crossed
The success of our Matrix instance is because exozyme made a long pivot from being a bunch of services to a computing-focused community, sort of like MIT's SIPB or my high school CS club. The people involved switched from being "users" to being "members". It was no longer a project, but rather just exozyme, a community. And I also became busy and found it much easier to run fewer services, let community members run the rest, and just moderate a Matrix chat and update the server every once in a while. We no longer have "core" services that are guaranteed to be well-maintained, and everything is just considered community-maintained now. Overall, this transition began two years ago and has only finished recently.
When I look back, I don't see "the exozyme project" as time wasted, but rather I got to learn a lot about computers and communities. Even if my original goal was a complete failure, exozyme has still grown into something better.
When I look back, I don't see "the exozyme project" as time wasted, but rather I got to learn a lot about computers and communities. I also got to meet a lot of interesting people! Even if my original goal was a complete failure, exozyme has still grown into something better.
A few days ago, I was thinking about how exozyme could be better, and in terms of technical aspects, it's fine. But I think we're missing traditions and a culture, but these things take a long time to organically develop. I mean, it's not like we're devoid of any culture now, since we have our April Fools' Day tradition, exofortune (which still doesn't have many quotes from our chat), and the notorious Hyper Bot and Haiku Bot. But I think exozyme started off as a quirky service provider (remember when we had the anime background for the remote desktop login?) and a lot of it has been lost in transition from project to a more computer-science-focused community, especially with the huge influx of new members. Our website just doesn't have that much personality anymore (no more FUQs, although that's probably a good thing), and I tried adding some of it back with some frivolous questions for the application email, but it's not quite the same.