State of Founderia: Q2 2023
A strange quarter. We shipped. We scaled. We learned. We're not summarizing the world; we're summarizing us. Roadmap, team, and what's next.
Open beta landed. Traffic went up. So did the number of edge cases. We shipped fixes, scaled capacity, and learned the hard way that latency isn't one number—it's jitter, packet loss, and brief stalls that break prediction and feel terrible. We're doubling down on reliability: transport that survives messy networks, better telemetry so we can see exactly where the experience degrades, and the kind of instrumentation that turns "something's wrong" into "this build, this region, this fix."
Safety and moderation at scale
As we've grown, safety has become a first-order concern. Text moderation was the start. Voice and behavior at scale are harder—and we're not willing to defer. We're building systems that can assess risk and enforce norms in real time, without requiring every report to hit a human queue. The goal isn't surveillance; it's a world that's safe enough to be worth inhabiting. We'll keep talking about how we do this and what we won't do.
Roadmap and team
More regions. Deeper persistence. Better networking and rendering so the world feels smooth on mid-range hardware. We're also hiring—people who want to work on something that persists. Strange quarter. We're still here. More soon.