"State of DTI: 2024" copy edits

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Emi Matchu 2024-09-20 13:53:10 -07:00
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@ -21,9 +21,10 @@ After 15 years of DTI (what the heck??!), and 15 years of changing
circumstances, **our primary focus is keeping DTI around for the long-haul**.
And, I'll be real with ya, the choices I made in earlier times weren't really
designed for decades of operation 😅
designed for decades of operation 😅 (DTI I think is now officially older than I
was when I started it? 🤐)
- When I started DTI, I wasn't really uhh, good at working with others? So I
- Back at the start, I wasn't really uhh, good at working with others? So I
never put together a formal team, and I built a codebase that was difficult to
share.
- And when we rebooted as Impress 2020, I borrowed the technology and design
@ -55,7 +56,7 @@ beyond just DTI 😭 So, I didn't discover issues quickly; and when I _did_, it
would sometimes take a few hours, or even days, to become available.
When I was younger, it was easier to be on-call all the time… now, we have to be
smarter about it. So, we're being smarter!
smarter about it. So, hey—we're being smarter!
- **🔔 Alerts:** We've set up automated notifications to tell us when the site
goes down, or when a new kind of crash appears. _(If you're curious, we're
@ -78,7 +79,7 @@ Right now, Dress to Impress is a weird combination of apps… I copy-pasted some
of Impress 2020's best UI changes over, but it all still used the Impress 2020
_server_ code, even when you're on `impress.openneo.net`.
This both doubled the danger of downtime (if _either_ app goes down, that's a
This both doubled the danger of downtime (if _either_ server goes down, that's a
problem for both!), and added networking complexities that are hard to track
down (hello, "error loading species/color"!)
@ -132,7 +133,7 @@ and monitoring,** which just weren't happening on their own.
too**—though we didn't end up building all of the integrated elements we were
hoping for. _(We were planning an "Add all to cart" NC Mall link, as a time
saver for folks, and a way to help TNT know that DTI helped you out.)_ Ah,
well—that's product work! I hope it's been helpful in this form, too!
well—that's product work! I hope it's been helpful in this form, too 💝
**Right now, we're on a bit of a pause,** as TNT's dev team focuses on the Void
Within plot and the other things on their plate. But our next plan is to look
@ -154,5 +155,5 @@ promise I'm giving the community the best I know how to give, always 💜)_
### As always, thank you!
I hope this plan makes sense, as just one guy doing her best to keep the site
online! And I hope this work can help set the stage for more people to join in
the coming years, too.
online! And I hope this work can help set the stage for more people to join our
team of maintainers in the coming years, too.