I’d ask for you to remember that we’re humans too - we just put a bunch of resources into a very messy upgrade. We’ve been asking for plenty of other fixes, busy running a website, collecting moderators, setting up services for our users and to manage the site, ensuring that emails send because the app doesn’t notify approval/denials, and in general scaling up for the unprecedented growth. We also had to defederate and caught a lot of flak for it, have had to deal with a lot of unsavory users, and in general have had very few people sympathize with our position.

I think it’s absolutely fair to be upset about changes and to vent that frustration. I also think it’s fair to point out it’s not constructive, but please see it from our perspective- it’s another headache we don’t know how to deal with right now, and it’s incredibly frustrating. It’s upsetting to see parts of the platform regressing, many of our concerns glossed over, and to face pushback from many users not even from our instance.