Dear CatOps community, Today Pavel Durov - a founder of Teleg | CatOps

Dear CatOps community,

Today Pavel Durov - a founder of Telegram - has announced that he will “block Telegram for the sides of the conflict in case of escalations”. A bit later he pulled back.

However, this is a very concerning statement. If Mr. Durov is indeed supports the ideas of feedom and liberal thinking, he would never even have such thought in the first place.

What does it mean for CatOps, though? Telegram is still our main platform for news and conversations. But as true DevOps / Platform / Infra / SRE / SysAdmin people, we always think about backups.

These are “cold backups” for now. It means that there is no content at the moment. However, we already a place for migration if it’s necessary. So:

- CatOps sub-reddit - there is no content here for now
- CatOps on Discord - there’s is nothing there either

Both platforms are just backups! However, if we need to move, we’re ready!

P.S. To my non-Ukrainian subscribers. Sorry that I cannot provide you with tech articles and other content, you’ve subscribed for.

If you want to help Ukraine in this battle for freedom, you can totally do that! This website contains all the details in English.

Also, this Telegram channel coordinates the joit effort of IT professionals worldwide to resist the bloody Russian regime.

If you’re a citizen of EU or US, contact your elected representatives, ask them, why not all the Russian banks are disconnected from SWIFT already. Ask them, why joint forces aren’t providing a Clear Sky already?

Glory to Ukraine!