2023-06-25, 03:11 PM
(This post was last modified: 2023-06-26, 04:16 PM by Chaphasilor. Edited 1 time in total.)
What bugs me the most about the forum approach is the lack of visibility/discoverability. I won't be scrolling through my (Reddit) feed anymore, finding out about a new, awesome plugin by chance. I likely won't find out about it at all, or at least not for some time.
The other thing is reaching users. We've gone from 50k subscribers on Reddit to ~600 right now. I'm not seeing this number grow past 5k, and that means your custom client or whatevery project you're working on will be seen by much fewer people. And this will in turn make it far less appealing for someone to put in the work to build such a client/plugin/project. At the end, I think the community will mostly stagnate, with very little third-party development happening anymore
The other thing is reaching users. We've gone from 50k subscribers on Reddit to ~600 right now. I'm not seeing this number grow past 5k, and that means your custom client or whatevery project you're working on will be seen by much fewer people. And this will in turn make it far less appealing for someone to put in the work to build such a client/plugin/project. At the end, I think the community will mostly stagnate, with very little third-party development happening anymore