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LCA: How to destroy your communityLCA: How to destroy your communityPosted Jan 18, 2010 21:32 UTC (Mon) by ikm (subscriber, #493)In reply to: LCA: How to destroy your community by dlang Parent article: LCA: How to destroy your community
I agree again, but would notice that even if program is useful to people indeed (even if highly and extremely useful!), it won't get popular instant by itself. This can take years. With the right publicity, though, it can gain a lot of users in no time. Publicity means a LOT -- look at all of our beloved spammers out there and ask why do they exist ;) Remember the story of Firefox. Look at how fast Google's Chrome is gaining weight (and yet crashes all the time on my machine when I try it!)
Of course, if the program is an outright crap, no amount of publicity would hold the user base :)
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LCA: How to destroy your community Posted Jan 21, 2010 11:44 UTC (Thu) by mgedmin (subscriber, #34497) [Link]
I'm not sure it's a good example. Publicity may be the reason why people
try out Google Chrome (or Chromium), but usability is why they keep using it. I may be extrapolating from one example here (myself), but despite all the numerous bugs I find Chromium more usable than Firefox.
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