As of today, Nach will no longer be in the role of Site Admin. While this was not an easy decision, the staff and I agree that we have various irreconcilable differences with Nach in how we intend to operate the site in the future, and Nach's position as site administrator made it impossible to proceed with development in the site the way we want to.
Under Nach's lead, progress on a lot of important aspects of the site is stalled in various ways. For example,
HTTPS support has been an ongoing issue for many years, but it is
Nach's insistence to take charge and arrange support with the current site code base, and that is one of the reasons why this is still an ongoing process after six years.
This is just one of various examples where Nach's role in site administration conflicts with the rest of staff. The
"GB movies in GBC mode" thread is an example where Nach came in conflict with various staff members over site rules. He attempted to override and revert rules that were set by staff multiple years prior, declaring them
not legitimate just because he wasn't personally involved. This both demonstrated lack of awareness of what went on with staff and site rules, as well as demonstrated
lack of faith in staff members. Added together, this creates a frustrating work environment in which it is hard to get work effectively done.
There are other examples that led to this decision, but we do not want to take away from the overall message of this announcement. If there are any questions as to why we’ve made this decision, we are happy to answer them.
Moving forward, I will continue to take charge as Site Admin. Working with the staff, our goal is to push the site forward with improvements to site technology, and expanding movie rules to be more inclusive to cool TAS projects that don't necessarily fit into our current framework.
