Comment by 316nuts on 06/07/2015 at 17:43 UTC

318 upvotes, 3 direct replies (showing 3)

How do you feel about various timelines and other goals that some subreddits have established as a way to keep you "true to your word"?

How will you measure success?

What is your time table?

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Comment by I_am_Rude at 06/07/2015 at 17:53 UTC

22 upvotes, 2 direct replies

Can you link to some of those timelines?

Comment by Werner__Herzog at 06/07/2015 at 18:18 UTC*

13 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Can an admin also acknowledge that Sept. 30th probably won't be the day they'll be done with project #1? I'd like to see a pragmatic answer. Sept. the 30th is the goal, but what are the possible shortcomings etc? What is realistic?

Edit: an admin already acknowledged

Comment by krispykrackers at 06/07/2015 at 18:08 UTC*

90 upvotes, 65 direct replies

*This is important.**

Those timelines were promised before we had a real plan of action or any internal dialogue. There's no good way to say this, but they are not reasonable and have given you guys some false hope. We want to do these things but we don't want to ship out crappy products either. Mainly, modmail is going to take a lot of time. It will not be ready by the end of the year.

We also need to discuss tool priorities with you guys. For example, if brigading isn't what you think should be a top priority, maybe we don't construct those tools first? I think once these questions are answered, we can start coming up with some realistic timelines.

Edit, to be clear, I don't mean that we won't have new features until the end of the year. I think it's reasonable to be able to expect smaller features rapidly. I just wanted to stress that, for modmail specifically since it was addressed over the weekend, an end-of-the-year promise is unrealistic and not going to happen.