That is what I am talking about. They could post, or even cross-post the same stuff. They don’t need a moderation team.
I think there definitely would be less anxiety about shipping on these forums if they had a community manager who could speak about delays proactively
To be fair, they appear to have been posting in zh-CN elsewhere, which is fine. I ordered a uConsole the day after the announcement and followed it here, and there were a lot of really hostile people throwing accusations and insults. In CPi’s position, I would probably have stayed away from the place where that was going on.
They’re making these cool devices that appeal to hackers, and the uConsole is enough of a “product” that it attracted a broader audience, people that don’t really understand the engineering process or what “lead time” means or how thin the margins can be, and thus were somewhat less sympathetic.