Migration: Loose ends

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The migration to Europe is still imperfect:

  • On the frontpage under Getting started still FreeSewing.org is named (that’s easy to repair).
  • Pictures on the showcase pages are stored at imagedelivery.net, a daughter company of US-based big player Cloudflare.
  • The main part of online communications does not take place at freesewing.eu or another European open source service, but at Discord, a US-based closed source service.

Please fix these issues even if it might not be trivial.

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People continue to use Discord because we like it. It’s not as if other alternatives are not available.

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Thank you for keeping our todo list fresh.

I feel compelled to point out that the Freesewing Discord server is a community effort, and not part of what we consider official FreeSewing infrastructure (like this forum is).

It is comparable to FreeSewing being present on Facebook, Reddit, and so on.

As such, there is nothing to fix because we are not in the business of telling people what to do, or where to congregate.

That being said, if you would like to start an alternative that would give people more choices on places to connect with our community, you have my full support to do so.

The image hosting is in our todo list. It is considered lower priority because all the hosted information is public. So there is no private user data hosted there.

At the end of the day, it’s all about priorities. We are currently preparing the 4.5 release which will have some important (umder the hood) changes.

There is unlikely ti be any movement in these matters until that get done. Thank you for practicing patience in the meantime.

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