Re:On why removing features makes people unhappy
by coldtea on Tuesday July 30, 2013 @06:37AM
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I used to use KDE, back when I used a Linux desktop. That was in the 2.x days.
I even used Konqueror as my main browser (circa 2000-2002) -- the alternative was the unwieldy Mozilla.
So, here's an observation about the community: back then, I read dot.kde.org (the official "KDE news" blog), and it would fill with 10-15 news stories every day or two. Each story would have a 50+ comment thread. Now, if you go there, there are one month old stories in the first page, and most stories have zero or 1 comment.
I don't know about the use base, but the active community has definetily shrank.
(There were also tons of announcements, new projects, theme sites, interviews with KDE hackers, this Mosfet guy, the Kompany, etc etc).
I even used Konqueror as my main browser (circa 2000-2002) -- the alternative was the unwieldy Mozilla.
So, here's an observation about the community: back then, I read dot.kde.org (the official "KDE news" blog), and it would fill with 10-15 news stories every day or two. Each story would have a 50+ comment thread. Now, if you go there, there are one month old stories in the first page, and most stories have zero or 1 comment.
I don't know about the use base, but the active community has definetily shrank.
(There were also tons of announcements, new projects, theme sites, interviews with KDE hackers, this Mosfet guy, the Kompany, etc etc).