Re: Fwd: What to do to get new users

Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal <[email protected]>
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 On Oct 19, 2024 at 4:26:51 PM, Martin Frb via fpc-pascal <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Which IMHO, means another (potentially drastic) downside.
>
> If it would be possible and would be done, you end up with 2
> incompatible products. That would mean you split the community into 2
> groups, each group smaller than the current. Effectively immediately
> downsizing the amount of users (in each group).
> Even if you gain 20% new users (and I find that more than optimistic, I
> would guess more like 5% tops, if we are lucky), and then split unevenly
> 60/40 => the larger of the 2 new communities will be at 70% of the
> current size.
>

this is a very good point. The splitting of the RTL is a deal breaker too.
Unless it was possible to turn it on and off with a compiler directive and
make very minimal code changes it’s off the table.

Regards,
    Ryan Joseph

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