CSS-Tricks in Limbo

CSS-Tricks 陷入停滞

I’m sad to say that CSS-Tricks is stuck in limbo again. The site was acquired by DigitalOcean in 2022, and it continued to run under their ownership until February of 2023, when DigitalOcean fired the people working on it. The site stayed latent for a year before DigitalOcean re-hired lead editor Geoff Graham in June of 2024, who got the ship sailing again. 我很遗憾地说，CSS-Tricks 再次陷入了停滞状态。该网站于 2022 年被 DigitalOcean 收购，并在其旗下持续运营至 2023 年 2 月，当时 DigitalOcean 解雇了所有相关工作人员。该网站沉寂了一年，直到 2024 年 6 月 DigitalOcean 重新聘用了主编 Geoff Graham，才让它重新焕发生机。

Now, CSS-Tricks sits inactive again. Its future is unclear, because there hasn’t been any communication. DigitalOcean largely just went silent. DigitalOcean is a big company, and it can be expected that things get missed, especially with staff turnover. However, management is a small part of a larger picture. 如今，CSS-Tricks 又一次处于停滞状态。由于没有任何沟通，其未来尚不明朗。DigitalOcean 基本选择了沉默。DigitalOcean 是一家大公司，出现疏漏是可以预见的，尤其是在人员流动频繁的情况下。然而，管理问题只是大局中的一小部分。

Only a few days ago, DigitalOcean pledged a $3,000,000 USD donation to Omarchy – a set of scripts and configurations atop Arch Linux and a range of other open-source software (much of which struggles greatly for funding). A set of scripts and configurations which are led by David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH), previously of Ruby on Rails fame, but now of Omarchy notoriety and far-right, racist infamy. 就在几天前，DigitalOcean 承诺向 Omarchy 捐赠 300 万美元。Omarchy 是一套基于 Arch Linux 及其他一系列开源软件（其中许多项目正面临严重的资金短缺）的脚本和配置。这套脚本和配置由 David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) 领导，他曾因 Ruby on Rails 而闻名，但如今却因 Omarchy 的恶名以及极右翼、种族主义的臭名而为人所知。

CSS-Tricks being ignored isn’t a matter of effort or time; it is a matter of care. As David Heinemeier Hansson wrote announcing DigitalOcean’s funding: “But the part of this patronage that really made me smile was how quickly it all came together. I reached out to Paddy Srinivasan, DigitalOcean’s CEO, on X on Wednesday. We had a call that same night. I sent a proposal on Saturday. By Sunday, we’d finalized everything.” CSS-Tricks 被忽视并非因为缺乏精力或时间，而是因为缺乏关怀。正如 David Heinemeier Hansson 在宣布 DigitalOcean 的资助时所写：“但这次赞助中最让我欣慰的是一切进展得如此之快。周三我在 X 上联系了 DigitalOcean 的首席执行官 Paddy Srinivasan。当晚我们就通了电话。周六我发送了提案。到了周日，我们就敲定了一切。”

I know Geoff has been trying to raise CSS-Tricks’ predicament for months, to no avail. Atop of this, DigitalOcean has ceased the monthly $50 payments they previously gave to GNOME and Flathub infrastructure. Apparently it is a more pressing matter for them to donate to a collection of scripts and configuration files than to contribute to the projects they’re built upon or to pay the writers and editors of their own publication. 我知道 Geoff 几个月来一直试图反映 CSS-Tricks 的困境，但无济于事。除此之外，DigitalOcean 还停止了此前每月向 GNOME 和 Flathub 基础设施提供的 50 美元捐款。显然，对他们来说，向一堆脚本和配置文件捐款，比为他们所依赖的项目做出贡献，或者支付自己出版物的作者和编辑的报酬更为紧迫。

Yes, I’ve got skin in the game as someone who has written for the publication, but I’ve got more skin in the game as someone who wishes for a thriving ecosystem and who wants to read the exemplary work CSS-Tricks is known for publishing. There are very few quality publications about the web left, and it would be a major blow to lose another. 是的，作为该出版物的撰稿人，我与此事利益相关；但作为一名希望生态系统繁荣发展、并渴望阅读 CSS-Tricks 一贯出版的优秀作品的读者，我对此有着更深切的关切。目前关于 Web 开发的优质出版物已所剩无几，再失去一家将是一个巨大的打击。