After nearly 3 months of downtime, Dread is about to re-launch. One of Dread's administrators, HugBunter, announced the platform will commence private testing.
On February 25th HugBunter posted:
February 25th, 2023
I did say the next post would be the re-launch, however now that we are up and running on the production server and still fine tuning configurations, we absolutely must run private testing in multiple stages over the next few days. This is not only to establish remaining bugs in the minor new features, but to gauge the stability on the cluster. This will allow us to adjust accordingly.
Right now, we have invited multiple hidden service admins to test and will next be moving onto advertisers and individual subdread Moderators, so they can pre-set their subdread's with any updates or relevant new posts, clean out any untouched spam from before shut down and so on.
All Ads have been extended by 3 months as of the time of writing, will be further extended if the launch surpasses the actual 3 month downtime mark.
We're looking to get through this testing quickly. If you fall into any of the mentioned categories, feel free to get in touch with me here or Jabber.
hugbunter@jabber.calyxinstitute.org
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Thats amazing news