Comment by hobofan

Today is the first time that I've heard that /r/rust is apparently regarded that little from the Rust team. To me it's the most important online gateway to the Rust community, and also the best resource to stay up to date with the ecosystem.

I knew that it was an "unofficial" channel, but given that it's most likely the single biggest aggregation of people in the Rust community, I always assumed that the Rust team would consider it of close to equal importance to users.rust-lang.org.

> And because this happened on Reddit, there was no real opportunity to actually step in. It's quite possible this is simply a failure on our part.

I don't think that much could've been done to prevent that. It also happened on such a quick timescale that one could've completely slept through the whole situation (from the initial Reddit comment to the post-mortem).