Having read back over the business FAQs, the biggest things that are different now is that I thought we'd have to define our anti-abuse policies a lot sooner -- we've been blessed (*knock wood*) with a very, very low volume of ToS complaints, and most of the things that come up are very common-sense and intuitive. (See previous ToS updates in dw_biz.) It's been so low-volume and laid-back that I haven't really felt the need to write clarifications of how we interpret the ToS, since nothing truly counter-intuitive has come up yet. (Thank goodness!)
Obviously, also the question of what to do with profits hasn't come up yet -- we won't get to that point for a while.
We're doing pretty well on cross-training people -- the technical-type stuff is all triple-redundant for the most part (there are a few things Mark is still the only one who knows how to do, mostly because they haven't come up yet, but as we identify them, we cross-train), and at least one other person knows how to do most of the businessy stuff, even though it's generally a good idea to have one person handling all that as much as possible to avoid things falling through the cracks. (When one person knows they're responsible for it, it gets done. If two people are responsible for it, it's possible for each of them to think the other is doing it.)
We do still have the same provisions in place for what to do if one of us doesn't want to be doing DW anymore, and we have in fact exercised them (although in Mark's case it wasn't "doesn't want to be doing DW anymore", it was "DW couldn't pay him enough to keep him working full-time") -- Mark's still half owner of Dreamwidth Studios, LLC, but he only handles emergency sysadmin type stuff for dreamwidth.org these days. I don't see me being fed up with DW anytime soon (I take frequent enough breaks that I don't feel overwhelmed). If either of us decided to divest our share of the company, I suspect fu would be the first candidate to sell to, even if it would complicate tax matters considerably, just becuase she has the strongest investment in the company's success right now!
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Having read back over the business FAQs, the biggest things that are different now is that I thought we'd have to define our anti-abuse policies a lot sooner -- we've been blessed (*knock wood*) with a very, very low volume of ToS complaints, and most of the things that come up are very common-sense and intuitive. (See previous ToS updates in
Obviously, also the question of what to do with profits hasn't come up yet -- we won't get to that point for a while.
We're doing pretty well on cross-training people -- the technical-type stuff is all triple-redundant for the most part (there are a few things Mark is still the only one who knows how to do, mostly because they haven't come up yet, but as we identify them, we cross-train), and at least one other person knows how to do most of the businessy stuff, even though it's generally a good idea to have one person handling all that as much as possible to avoid things falling through the cracks. (When one person knows they're responsible for it, it gets done. If two people are responsible for it, it's possible for each of them to think the other is doing it.)
We do still have the same provisions in place for what to do if one of us doesn't want to be doing DW anymore, and we have in fact exercised them (although in Mark's case it wasn't "doesn't want to be doing DW anymore", it was "DW couldn't pay him enough to keep him working full-time") -- Mark's still half owner of Dreamwidth Studios, LLC, but he only handles emergency sysadmin type stuff for dreamwidth.org these days. I don't see me being fed up with DW anytime soon (I take frequent enough breaks that I don't feel overwhelmed). If either of us decided to divest our share of the company, I suspect