lol :)

Sun Mar 20 2022 06:25:23 AM EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

I forgot to make it read-only. Rookie mistake. Give me a break, I've only been doing this for 34 years :)

Hi. I'm new here at Uncensored! although I have successfully used Citadel on several private projects for the last 10 years. I am a very fan of this software. Thank you for keeping it up! 

Same here. Its a cesspool. 1000s of channels. No oversight. Everyone expects you to be staring at the screen just waiting for them to talk to you and if you dont respond instantly, they are insulted.  Screw them. I have work to do.

Turned out exactly how i expected. Never thought anything could be worse than the convoluted mess SharePoint was, but MS pulled it off.

Well, in my both cases I used Citadel, I was the one who decided to use it.

The first case: a new Trade Union for an over 800-900 workers company was founded and needed an online tool to publish news, have a chat, a mailing list and forum-like spaces. Both public and private access were mandatory because of the needing of broadcasting information to all the workers but also send information reserved to the base members and the board members.

I was the one at the head of IT for the T.U. and looked for a tool that did these things. These days Joomla was the go-to software and I tested it and also did with Wordpress+plugins nightmare and Drupal but none of them did the job.

I chose Citadel because it was everything we needed and we could run it out-of-the-box. We lived in a rush because of the situation in the company: new committee elections were coming and some dramatic regulations were going to happen so we needed an agile tool to organize the protests, etc. and Citadel made it easy. The other solutions would take us too much time to set them up so I discarded them.

The protests and mobilization period was a rush and Citadel was a great tool to broadcast information, organize events, mobs, strikes, etc. The webcit interface was concise and clear enough for people who were not into computers or internet: most of the staff were on hevay duty maintenance areas, rough people. But they developed very well with the rooms, mailing list, etc. I know they hated ad nauseam company's MS Sharepoint, so that's a POINT!

Once that period came to an end, we got some wins and had some loses as on every battle but a bureaucrat period started and I got off the boat.

The T.U. started to make more officework rather than organizing mobs and protests and Citadel was shut down. They continued with millions of doc, xls documents, and whatsapp... You know, the establishment after the revolution.

And i guess to put my MS hatred aside for one second: If sharepoint and teams were managed correctly by an organization, it would not be a total disaster.. Still not great, and i wont like them, but at least not the disaster when you ( we ) have several thousand people doing their own thing, all over the place, with no direction or consistency. 

So, you say you had close to 1k people on your citadel, what sort of hardware did you have running it? I have always wondered about load on a large user base. 

So, you say you had close to 1k people on your citadel, what sort of hardware did you have running it? I have always wondered about load on a large user base. 

Ah, i was thinking more like several hundred concurrent.  

I can.  But then again, i can see the darkness in the sun... ( which i hate btw, it gives me headaches )

Fri Mar 25 2022 06:56:54 PM EDT from zelgomer

Can't complain!

I have not seen it proven in either direction. If it did exist, our sun's twin would be so far gone now we would never know if we did find it.

Fri Mar 25 2022 08:50:50 PM EDT from zelgomer

No, I read about the Nemesis theory but I think that one's been debunked.

Lol.

Fri Mar 25 2022 08:02:50 PM EDT from zelgomer

You shouldn't stare at that. The darkness is probably where you've burned holes in your retinas.

The one that i have read about which uses that term is just that sun had a twin, and at some point in the past it left the solar system.  Many ( most? ) younger systems are binary stars. So logically we had one too at one point in the distant past. But its sooo far in the past there is no residual effects here and no way to find it out there in the cosmos. 

Theories suggesting a current body mass locally, i have heard referred to as other things. But not nemesis. ( like Planet X ).   And i agree, those dont have a lot of scientific proof behind them. Their theories are not totally debunked yet, but not looking good for them either.

Fri Mar 25 2022 10:09:31 PM EDT from zelgomer

It's the one that there's a massive trans-neptune object in the solar system, either a small star or a black hole, which every few hundred milennia or whatever passes through a debris field and slings asteroids toward Earth causing peeiodic mass extinction events.