Really gonna make me do it? Force my elbow to make the connection between "BASIC has a limited audience nowadays" and "we might not be the easiest to find on the google search listing" as if one does not cause the other. Our Kix cereal tester concludes there's nothing to fix either...and I wonder if we're asking the wrong people the wrong questions when it comes to a holistic view qb64's health.
When it comes to popularity and outreach, I raise these questions to the rest of you:
(i) Does anyone actually care if this language is used? If this turns out to be mostly "no", we're at stage 4 diagnosis already. The compiler and its users are in hospice care. It's already a big event when someone leaves. Admin may refresh the flowers once in a while so the room looks alive (spring banner), but the replacement rate is under-unity for sure. (And please if you want to refute this, don't show me the last 2 weeks or months worth of data. The number of neurons per cubic meter has been decreasing in the long-term.)
(ii) Does anyone see what needs to be done with the existing digital assets, supposing we wanted more flourishing of human activity? Plenty of us do. If the old model was any help, I point out that qb64pe has no formal website, no magnet for the search engines. The forums are a time-tested horrible way to archive projects and work in general. The site qb64.com site is basically a tombstone, so I would almost count it out, except it happens to work. People join that discord all the time.
(iii) Is anyone flaunting their stuff on twitter or the socials? We need to bring all that together. If nobody is trying this, or something like this, then we really do have nothing to talk about.
If any of the stuff I just raised seems like a job you want to get started with, consider your permission had. Consider yourself asked. In different places there's discussion of making a better website, having some kind of e-zine, all that classic stuff that made the web cozy. If you want in on the bleeding edge, speak up. Get into discord. It's only a damn chatroom. How scary is it?
When it comes to popularity and outreach, I raise these questions to the rest of you:
(i) Does anyone actually care if this language is used? If this turns out to be mostly "no", we're at stage 4 diagnosis already. The compiler and its users are in hospice care. It's already a big event when someone leaves. Admin may refresh the flowers once in a while so the room looks alive (spring banner), but the replacement rate is under-unity for sure. (And please if you want to refute this, don't show me the last 2 weeks or months worth of data. The number of neurons per cubic meter has been decreasing in the long-term.)
(ii) Does anyone see what needs to be done with the existing digital assets, supposing we wanted more flourishing of human activity? Plenty of us do. If the old model was any help, I point out that qb64pe has no formal website, no magnet for the search engines. The forums are a time-tested horrible way to archive projects and work in general. The site qb64.com site is basically a tombstone, so I would almost count it out, except it happens to work. People join that discord all the time.
(iii) Is anyone flaunting their stuff on twitter or the socials? We need to bring all that together. If nobody is trying this, or something like this, then we really do have nothing to talk about.
If any of the stuff I just raised seems like a job you want to get started with, consider your permission had. Consider yourself asked. In different places there's discussion of making a better website, having some kind of e-zine, all that classic stuff that made the web cozy. If you want in on the bleeding edge, speak up. Get into discord. It's only a damn chatroom. How scary is it?