If the only reason people care about NaNoWriMo is for the name and hashtag, somebody already pitched Writevember as a replacement. Honestly sounds better to me anyway.
I’ve heard other people say the tools/gamification/etc on the NaNoWriMo platform were really helpful though. For those people, how difficult would it be to potentially patch that stuff into the WriteFreely platform? As one of the only long-form Fediverse-native platforms still being actively developed, maybe they’d appreciate the boost in code contributions.
Let me guess - their marketing strategy is to be deliberately provocative to get clickbait coverage?
From what I heard a hostile take over of the non profit occurred driving out most of the long term staff. This is probably the result of that. Someone deciding you need to shake it up and modernize it