Did you study the Release Notes before trying to upgrade?

The reviews here are much more thoughtful:
https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resou … tro=devuan

Try refining your search.  There are three categories:

Keyword search - plasma or KDE etc.  I sometimes add a space at the end of a search word

Select where to search - Maybe start with checking Desktop and Multimedia and/or Installation

Select how to view search results: you might want to Show results as Posts instead of Topics

@dxrobertson . . . Maybe you'd want to comment on that directly to DW?

Is udev running the show or eudev?  IIRC eudev is default in ASCII.  If yes, something might have gotten lost in translation.  That's the only suggestion I have as this subject is way beyond me technically.

The report button is only visible to admins.  A post in forum feedback would be public.  That's a big difference in transparency.

I disagree.  The emails I have gotten were from well-established, respected contributors to this forum whose only 'agenda' was for the forum to be free of disruption.

The discussion here seems to be pretty much against implementing the troll extension to be publicly viewable.   I'm not opposed to a trial run with hidden stats.  In any case it would be useful for some to be able to ignore an annoying user.

Then you haven't been paying attention.  Or maybe it's just semantics . . .

It would give the admins a sense of how users are reacting to questionable posts though as has been mentioned the numbers can be manipulated.  In the past, users have on occasion emailed me when they feel someone else on the board has crossed a line.  Perhaps public requests in Forum Feedback would be a better option to suggest a need for administrative action.  All I know is that there are times when action might be necessary.  We just need to figure out the best way to gauge when and what is appropriate.

Thankfully, this board has fewer issues than most because of the maturity of its members.

An another point . . . post ratings are not on our radar so rest easy on that.

And finally . . . the only cliques I have seen here are trolls banding together.

That would depend on your definition of 'traditional manner'.  A troll's knee-jerk defense to any moderation or reason is to play the victim and it's a downward spiral of venom after that.

Disclaimer to those who may point a finger in my direction . . . this mod was not my idea but I'm not opposed to giving it a try.  I would however prefer that there be no public "shaming" involved that could incite undesirable results.  I do think that stats on users that are having a negative effect on this board are a useful metric for deciding what action if any should be taken.

@devuser . . . That's fantastic news!  The process is a bit daunting though - not for the faint-hearted.  I should probably add Hetzner to the list and include a link to your post above.  Could you possibly contact them requesting either an update to or addition of the ASCII iso?

My advice is to stay away from LO for any text/config files.  Please use a text editor like mousepad or Pluma or geany etc..

If you would provide Dutch that would be most appreciated!

Two options were included in the ASCII stable announcement.  That info is posted in two places on the devuan.org website.

https://devuan.org/os/debian-fork/ascii … nce-060818
https://devuan.org/os/install

AWS used to have a devuan image available.  Perhaps one of you could confirm.  As to Hetzner . . . according to one of our devs: