Post: #54

The reality here is the Sphere Dev team is fractured, and regardless of how they feel they're not here, and not supporting the project hardly at all.

Sphere needs a complete reboot, we need a new community manager, and new dev team structuring. I'm not questioning the competence of any of the current team members, but I am questioning the dedications. Ben is great, he does good work, and he's still around. There may be some other devs doing some stuff behind the scenes I'm not seeing, but I'd guess not.

This site is also really poorly taken care of. I'm probably one of the major 'Sphere' supporters, and I want sphere to succeed. But all I see is non-action everywhere I look. It seems no one who has the power to market Sphere seem to give more than 2 shits of a damn. That is the problem, and that's why people are upset.

As I've hinted in the past, I will just be blunt, this is what needs to happen:
1. This site needs a complete, total, ground up overhaul.
2. Half the dev team needs to be let go, they're just collecting dust.
3. We need a new person to head this website who is dedicated to Sphere, has the maturity and professionalism to represent sphere, and of course, has the skills to manage a website. I'm sorry, but this is my biggest issue. We need more than just a "head moderator" we need someone in charge of the entire damned website, who is *not* a developer.
4. I think Ben should be promoted to Lead Developer, since he seems to care more than anyone.

I've ran plenty of communities in the past, and I can tell when a ship is sinking and I can also tell when it can be saved. This is one of those times we can save it! We're right on the edge, and someone needs to do something drastic, and stop p***y footing around.

/rant off.

I'm sorry if I'm being offensive, but I'm sick of people tap dancing around the problems. I know how to fix it, but it's up to you guys to actually do it.

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