Re: The Gramps Discourse forum needs members.

Agreed!

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> On 5 May 2025, at 18:01, Per Starbäck <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Emyoulation wrote:
> 
>> One of the measures of a software application is the number of registered
>> users in its official forum.
>> 
>> 
> Is it? And what do you use that measure for? Lots of users who just want to
> use some software without feeling any need to ask questions or engage with
> other people is really a big success. And also I think it can be a mistake
> for free software to think in such terms to begin with. Yes, it's nice if
> users who would be happy with the software find it, but still there's a
> danger in adopting the viewpoint of someone trying to sell a commodity. I
> see it more as a success for example if Gramps is mentioned more often when
> people ask in Genealogy groups about recommendations for software. And as
> for getting announcements of new versions as quickly as possible: Most
> users are not even interested in those announcements.
> 
> 
>> Right now, the number is far too low for https://gramps.discourse.orgAnd
>> the activity in this mailing list has fallen to almost nothing.
>> 
>> 
> As for myself I remember that once when I thought of writing some
> non-critical question to the list I didn't do so, because the last couple
> of messages to the list then had all immediately gotten (certainly
> well-meaning) comments saying "you should ask on discord instead". Since I
> have no intentions of joining that I abstained instead (and I don't
> remember now what I was going to write -- that was some time ago).
> 
> /signed "satisfied user of Gramps"
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