Why Panchayat?

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  alb_d  posted on  2019-02-18

• Reddit was not really private. Although the subreddit is private its still in public domain.
• Reddit has been acting recently. They are planning to become mainstream. Ads, premium subscription, promoted posts, more censorship etc. I wouldn't be surprised if in some time they remove private subreddits or change it in some way that we are forced to exit.
• There are certain features we would like which reddit does not have currently. Tagging, mailing list, complex searches. These are not there currently in panchayat but we plan to add them incrementally. Reddit also had a pain point where it would automatically archive all posts older than 6 months making them read only.
• Reddit will not be there forever. We wanted to reclaim our data while we still could. Since we own our data, we should be able to keep the service alive longer migrating to anything else if needed.

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  alb_d  commented on  2019-02-18

But why the name Panchayat?
This was very organic during a conversation with Debo.

What's Morjim?
That's the name of the current release version 2.0. There was Arambol 1.0 before this that Debo had made. That's available at arambolpanchayat.haletic.com

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  alb_d  commented on  2019-03-03

@debo do you remember how the name panchayat came about?