The initial reason, from years back, is I assumed it would be rejected outright; and it’s just as well, I would have chosen Catalyst and that probably would have been a suboptimal choice these 13ish years later. I went as far as getting a related domain name to do exactly what you suggest, shadow the site as an experiment, and setting up some basics and an outline of reverse engineering. The current reasons include an absolute dearth of remotely circular tuits + analysis paralysis + fear of taking on responsibility I couldn’t handle + distaste for the social aspects of arguing about anything + I’d either be “outing” myself or having to jump through hoops to have a pseudonymous github presence (which I also went as far as setting up). Garnish with I’ve always liked the site okay as is and with tobyink’s skin I like it better and with the ajax voting I put together recently I don’t have any serious friction points.

If it ever in these threads sounded like I was criticizing you or any other active pmdev, I should clarify the exact opposite is true. I am grateful you take it on and deal with issues. The site is fantastic as an entity and while there are several things that go into that it’s only possible because of you and the others who maintain the code.