We're going to switch the develop environment back to a non-groups build with more enhancements and fixes.

Basically, groups is still in it's own branch. When we are testing that, this will have groups. When we are testing [other], we switch back to the develop branch.

So, you are going to see Groups disappear here for a bit while we quality a new batch of changes on their way to prod. Once we're done with that, we'll be switching back to groups.

[please stand by...]

@robcolbert I'm getting direct messages from people outside of gab and can't reply to them. Why is this basic native to mastodon feature available in gab?

@DavidBond we made a decision back before the 4th of July to pull DMs from our UI because they don't meet people's privacy expectations when they think of a DM.

At some point, we're entirely ripping out the whole feature and the ability to even receive those broken messages while entirely not caring if that's not Fediverse-compatible. DMs are simply broken. I really can't see us leaving them in or trying to "fix" them because screw _all_ of that.

To replace DMs, we will be building out a proper chat system that works more like Chat used to work on Gab but better.