ANN: News 2015-02-01

[anatoly techtonik]

A year has passed since group revival a year ago. The resurrection
spell lasted for two weeks and it died again. The cause for this
update is an another attempt to release python-patch to public.

Some summaries from 2014. Flattr didn't work for me with not a
single transaction over the year, so I switched to Gratipay, so
financial experiments are not over.

The Google Groups also appeared to be a limited medium. Ghost
is finally released, but I couldn't set up it yet. Medium requires a
Facebook or Twitter account. And it gets tedious and boring and
requires too much time to write full-fledged posts. Group doesn't
allow to edit posts, it is unlikely to provide consistency that would
be expected from a blog. It is also really hard to add features to,
but it will probably stay for a while in zombie mode.