Booo
Down with this sort of thing!
Yeah, the logic being that nobody was using it very much and it made the forum look more rather than less deserted most of the time. If we get back to having a good amount more activity and people are using things like this general chat thread so much that we need to reinstate it to help keep the flow, then of course we'll look into it. We're... a little way off that, right now.
I think a lot of people feel pressed right now because some systems are starting to work again, but there is a backlog from the first three years of the COVID pandemic, and other systems are still not functional or barely functional (eg. healthcare). So some things are rush rush while other things which they depend on are slow or nonfunctional.
Yes, I think that's fair to say. Healthcare in Austria is fairly functional, but trying to support people in worse situations can be exhausting in and of itself. And I think there's a burnout backlog too where people have pushed themselves through the last few years, some better than others, but in many cases that's taken a toll that they haven't had any additional space to recoup.
This week I'm mostly gearing up for Coding Medieval Worlds at the weekend... life in general feels like it's ticking along, but in a slightly odd limbo, where things both must change soon and yet the change keeps not quite feeling any closer. It's an odd feeling. I have only about a year and ten days left of my twenties, most of the second half of which has been swallowed up between a PhD and a pandemic, and it's hard to know how to feel about life sometimes.
