The DhO and AN proposed merger: thoughts?

Mario Nistri wrote:

Tom Otvos wrote: But as of right now, there is no movement on this integration of DhO until some of the underlying architectural and cultural issues are addressed.

I'm missing the point; what does this mean, from a practical point of view?

One of the big points raised by the vocal DhO opponents was the fact that their culture is open and accepting whereas AN is more paternalistic. Architecturally, this touches on everything from member approval and terms of service, to visibility of content above and below the "privacy line" that we have put into AN. I need to figure out an elegant way to support high volume public content from one group that may be considered "noise" by another group, and do it in such a way that each group get benefits of membership in the broader network. Because, after all, there has to be a clear benefit for DhO to host their content here, otherwise why bother?

And this is all over and above the known technical issue of moving content from the DhO database into the one maintained here, while preserving link references.

While it remains true that Liferay, the backbone of DhO, is kind of a nasty piece of software, if they get their upgrade ducks in a row then the value proposition to moving (at least to some members) is not at all clear.

I think the DhO audience likes their way and folks here seems to like our way, so maybe it just wasn't meant to be.

BTW - rather than have a brand new topic started about this I appended Limbic's question to the existing topic.

- Chris

Limbic wrote: Maybe we should do more to dissociate AW from the DFRC peeps

Sorry, but I don't quite understand that comment. Can you please elaborate?

Nathan (aka triplethink) participated on the early, early DhO on Wetpaint, and sometimes on the early KFD on Wetpaint. Those of us who participated back then know him from those days. His posts back then were easier to understand. Not sure what he's doing now but it's hard to follow.

EDIT: I got interested in a dialog with triple think over on DhO when he said he was born as a stream enterer and had been living his entire (current?) life that way.