If you truly want this to become a replacement for the subreddit that should not be named, you have to fix this shit fast. The performance / latency on this site is god-awful. I understand you are using CloudFlare to safeguard against DDOS attacks, and I get that this site is a target for the left to hammer, but there is no good reason why the performance and usability of this site has to be total shite when you have had so many people (good people) offer their skills and services (probably for free) to help you fix this shit.
Protip: there are a ton of people in this community (me included) who have razor-sharp skills on building websites that scale, perform well, and have a decent usability experience.
You have provided zero to no instruction on how these people can get involved and help. Thus, you are failing miserably.
Embrace the help. If that means getting on a discord chan or slack chan or whatever and vetting ppl, do it. But this site needs a ton of work to become usable. We want to help. Let us help. Tell us how we can help.
shoot me a link please. happy to do it. but can i give you a tip. put a stickied post at the top that calls out for software wizards who may want to help and give them a place to go to go thru the interview process or vetting or whatever you want.
right now it is a hot mess. ppl in the comments of all posts just bitching about the latency and usability of the site. put a sticky at the top and put a call out for help and help will come.
Trying to join the discord is a joke. I’ve applied multiple times and have been turned away every time. The vetting process is too tight. Just because I don’t post a bunch of low hanging fruit memes and comment “Bill Clinton is a rapist” on every post doesn’t mean I’m not a die hard Trump supporter.
This is their failure. There needs to be a process. It is management 101.