State of things, Q2 2016

Most of the troubles we’re having haven’t really come as surprises. A lot of it is down to MetaBrainz having a very sparse economy. The MetaBrainz.org redesign last year has really helped to improve the cash flow, which has allowed us to hire @Zas as a system administrator. Until this time @Rob acted as system administrator (with some help from the developers), community person, business person, and god knows what other roles. With a bunch of this offloaded, we have a lot more (mental) capacity to actually plan ahead and be active instead of only being reactive. I’m sure @Rob will talk lots more about this, once he gets around to the 2015 Annual Report - but for now, I’ll invite you to follow the MetaBrainz IRC channel (either via the logs or by actually being there). There’s a lot of discussion going on at the moment (mostly between @Zas, @Rob, and @KodeStar (from FanArt.tv)) about our planned data center move. This is all way off topic for the current topic though.

TL;DR: We know. We’re working on it. Please bear with us a little while longer.

I’m not following this one though. What updates are we talking about here? What features have been broken?

(If you want to follow up to either of these, please do so in a new topic.)

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