@niggaflamebuttholeaids @SteveTheDragon
That's kinda my point, no one does server maintenance or replacement for a whole week. You'd have to be extremely incompetent at this. And they've been working on gab for years now. You'd think they've learned a thing or two in all this time. We're literally at a point where Occam's razor would point towards they ran away with money.

@alyx @niggaflamebuttholeaids @SteveTheDragon the blog post suggest they are doing development on their production server while it’s down, while supposedly migrating. The amount of time it’s been down is majorly fishy. The level of incompetence involved is pretty baffling for a supposed million dollar company.

@a7 @alyx @SteveTheDragon @niggaflamebuttholeaids Why would an update cause a huge increase in traffic?

@lucky @a7 @SteveTheDragon @alyx They marketed it as a big rebrand by switching from a twitter clone to a facebook clone, so they want to sell the idea that a ton of people have come back.

The truth is their new FE just runs like ass.

@niggaflamebuttholeaids @SteveTheDragon @a7 @alyx facebook clone as in using their real identity? I don’t see how anybody on gab would want their account linked to their IRL identity. It would be career/social suicide.

@lucky @SteveTheDragon @a7 @alyx In terms of UI, cause a lot of their userbase growth are Grandpa’s who got banned for saying immigration bad.

It’s actually a fundamentally a solid layout, they took the core of Facebook and simplified it down to a level that doesn’t make you want to kill yourself upon first viewing. A few oddities, but I’d use it if it didn’t run like ass, which is unfortunately impossible for them.

@lucky @SteveTheDragon @alyx @niggaflamebuttholeaids @a7 Gab is infested with boomers using their real name and face, who screech at people for having anime avatars. They're too stupid to understand the potential consequences for their actions.

@lucky @SteveTheDragon @niggaflamebuttholeaids @a7
Facebook clone as in similar features. I don't think they're going with the "you need to put your real name".

@SteveTheDragon @a7 @alyx @lucky There’s not much difference, fundamentally. If you want a 1:1 Twitter clone that’s what Eugene is already making.

@SteveTheDragon @a7 @alyx @lucky If you can ask P to keep an up to date MastoFE you can use the single column mode by forcing mobile, then it’ll really be like Twitter. But to my knowledge he’s still on a version where that doesn’t work properly.

Alternatively, you could come here, we do have it working and we don’t have any particular rules to my knowledge.

@SteveTheDragon @a7 @alyx @lucky Navigating Pleroma threads on most mobile clients is Hell. Only good one that has semi-acceptable navigation tools and doesn’t otherwise suck donkey asshole is Husky, and it’s still pre-release.

@lucky @SteveTheDragon @alyx @niggaflamebuttholeaids i think they are trying to say they had to migrate and fix somethings because an increase in traffic. idk what ever is going on its like day 5 of their site being down. Alex’s suggestion that maybe they have taken the money and ran is starting to sound about right.

@a7 @lucky @SteveTheDragon @alyx The problem is if they were going to take the money and run they would’ve done it 3 years ago. They’re just incompetent lel

@niggaflamebuttholeaids @SteveTheDragon @alyx @lucky maybe he’s a prepper idk

@niggaflamebuttholeaids @a7 @SteveTheDragon @alyx Maybe it took them 3 years to think of it?

@lucky @SteveTheDragon @a7 @alyx No way, they were fudging the numbers heavy from the start when they were initially fund raising. There’s no way they wouldn’t have run it back then if some part of Dorbo didn’t genuinely want to build something.

They’d get sued into oblivion anyway if they tried tho lel

@alyx @SteveTheDragon If you arent familiar with the situation theyre currently in, maybe. They just ported to a new resource intensive FE that was running worse the longer they were up because they can’t code for shit. no one’s checked their git because who cares but most likely they’re having to duct tape a bunch of fixes in addition to migration. They’re also really fucking slow anyway, don’t think they’re gone just because they take forever lol.

They’re right on the cusp of what they think is a major release with the video calling software, they’ll be back.

@alyx @SteveTheDragon (part of me wants to think they accidentally deleted the site like they did to their dev site a couple weeks ago but that would be too funny)

@niggaflamebuttholeaids @SteveTheDragon
I'm not necessarily convinced they gave up on gab and ran away with the money, but I definitely can see why people would start thinking this.