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Ben Halpern

Yup! It will be a long haul because Ruby is not built for that quality by nature, but we feel pretty good that as we refine the platform we rewrite whatever the worst components are and we win in the long run.

Impact wise, this is a big part of our big picture plan with the hosted product, which will be called Forem Cloud.... Here's a little internal memo I just wrote about what Forem Cloud is all about, think of it as rough-draft copy for a future specific mission statement.

Forem Cloud is a commitment. It's a commitment to a security, privacy, portability and reliability.

It's a commitment to the accessibility of online community, to driving down prices over time and sharing our work to help others do the same when self-hosting.

Forem Cloud is a commitment to reliability and simplicity which nourishes the ecosystem and allows creators to grow and thrive.

Forem Cloud is a commitment to being detail-oriented, it's a commitment isolation for security for security and portability, shared resources where appropriate for efficiency, and it's a commitment to doing it all in the way that minimizes the longterm carbon footprint of global cloud compute.

It's a commitment to enabling transparency to thrive, for open source to become the norm in consumer applications, it's a commitment to empowering community.