The ongoing survival of Beehaw may NOT be what you think

Hello there and thank you for being a part of Beehaw!

The formation of Beehaw is documented well.

This is a tale of one individual that swooped in, during the recent Reddit blackout, to bolster our community.

I remember the three days, in particular, when Reddit announced that they would ‘fuck over’ all of the third-party apps associated with their site.

Those three days were incredibly stressful to me. We had thousands of users flocking to Beehaw and, subsequently, Beehaw was down more than 80% of the time.

All the admins were scrambling and, initially, we received help from Helix. They helped us stabilize some pressing issues and I’m very thankful for their early help.

Minutes later someone else sent me a DM (i.e. direct message) offering more assistance. We chatted a little and then they asked for root access of our server with the assurance that I could stop them at any moment. To explain, they gave me a window in which I could see what they were doing (in real time) that I could stop at any moment.

I watched them work their magic, and at no time did I witness any wrong doing.

That was the beginning of our relationship with PenguinCoder.

I took a huge risk entrusting them with complete access to Beehaw. Maybe, I shouldn’t have done this without speaking to the other admins. Forgive me for stepping out of line here. I had a hunch and I went with it.

Not only has PenguinCoder gotten Beehaw out of all of that technical Reddit refuge wave. They have, also, continued to improve Beehaw every single day.

Technically speaking, Beehaw would not exist in its current state without them.

Anecdotally, PenguinCoder is a pleasure to work with. Incredibly generous, knowledgeable, friendly, kind, considerate and the list goes on.

I can’t imagine what this place would be without their contributions.

We are, truly, blessed to have them here with us.