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This is true— But also, we will support the journey towards being 100% cloud agnostic— It just wasn't worth holding up this release to get it all perfect.

Nothing is deeply cloud-specific in the core stack— Opportunities to go cloud agnostic are there, we just might have to do it via contribution, as we have a few important projects on the go with conflict with the time this would take. But it's open source, and it will happen :)

Yes, Forem is extracted from dev.to— which was built to reach millions— With crowdsourced moderation, feed algorithms, rich editors, etc, and we're working backwards from there. So yeah, it's a little complicated at this layer of the stack, and getting simpler over time as we work to extract from the core.

Background processes, on-the-fly image optimization/caching— It's more shopify for independent social networking than it is classical forum software.

Great post

I'm not sure which ones they are, but I'm sure some of the most impactful things ever published had this moment of hesitation involved.

Blog post: "I'm creating an entire web OS as my personal website for 2021"

https://dev.to/nicolalc/i-m-creating-an-entire-web-os-as-my-...

A lot of good things here. I think I'll try to address a lot of this in an upcoming blog post or two. I'd get into it now but I'm a bit tired from an exhausting day of making this announcement.

You can follow me at https://dev.to/ben to get notice when I get a chance to flesh some of this out publicly.

Honestly, that sums it up well enough. But the devil is in the details.

Branding has been the bane of our existence, we're gradually figuring it out.

Luckily our longterm plans revolve around helping other people use our software under _their_ name.

We have some private alpha users, but mostly the re-usable software isn't quite there yet.

We've been mostly focused on phase 1 which is our own use of the software, but have a roadmap to get more folks on the underlying platform in 2020.