Jos Thanks a lot for letting us feel good about this.
On 03/03/2015 11:44 PM, Jos Poortvliet wrote:
Hi all, I know you have plenty of bug reports and other stuff to deal with, but here's a message you should hear/read: in February, ownCloud people were at FOSDEM and SCALE and talked to at least 2,000 people about what we do. And they *LOVED ownCloud* And that is a quote: _LOVE_. I heard that not just once or twice, but probably over 50 times: "Dude, I love ownCloud" and every permutation of that sentence possible. And further, there were hundreds of "you guys are awesome" to "ownCloud rocks" to "man, I am so happy I found ownCloud" and so on! People who didn't know about ownCloud told me "wow, that is awesome, I will try that as soon as I get home" and I even had one person come to me, say "hey, I don't use ownCloud, but I think it is fantastic what you are doing, keep it up!" -> there's no way to disappoint that person :D Serious. We didn't talk to more than 5 people who were _less_ than very happy with ownCloud. You see, the thing is: ownCloud fulfills a *very important role* for many people. There is no other proper, open solution to do what ownCloud does and it is working extremely well for the vast majority of our users. Yes, with so many users you are bound to find corner cases and stuff all the time so it seems there's a load of issues. Perhaps, but they touch very few of our users and if they touch them, they can often find a solution with a quick search in our forums or github as you are all doing a *wonderful job* answering questions and helping people deal with issues. We are making a _real difference_. Serious. I think you can safely assume that the handful of Reddit complainers probably didn't even TRY ownCloud, and at the very least are a tiny, tiny minority. Not saying "stop fixing issues" but after talking to many hundreds of grateful users, I'd like to share some of their thanks with you. Please know you are *loved* and appreciated far more than our github, IRC or mailing lists sometimes show! If you wonder: what were the biggest issues they had? I have to disappoint you. I had no more than 4 or 5 people come to me and tell me they had some kind of problem. A few had problems with contact/calendar syncing, and 2 experienced upgrade issues. And none of them were very negative: they just mentioned a bit of frustration between the praise. Serious. I had NOBODY come to me and say "ownCloud sucks" or anything remotely like that. NOBODY. So yes. *Lots of LOVE* from a massive number of users. To all of you. Bask in it! If you are more of a graphical person: oo oo OOOOOOOO: OOOOOOOO! oOOOO!!!!;;;;O OO.......:;!O 'OOO!!!;;;;;;;;O O.......: ;!O OOO!!!!;;::::::.OO........: ;!O OO!!!!;;:::::..............: ;!O OOO!!!;::::::..............: ;!O OO!!;;::::::.............: ;!O OO!;;::::::......oo.....::::!O O!!;::::::........oo..:::O !!!;:::::..........ooO !!;:::::.......O oo ;;::::.....O oo ,o :::..O ooo ::. oooo : --\ _----_ /-- |:::" ":::| /-- \ \-: O -/ /---\ |: \ | /-o-\ | / :| \: \ \| |// : / \: \-\-U-/-/:: : / \:: / \;:/ / \ |: | /---\: /---\ /---\ \: /: /--\ / \ |:;.. |:/ \ / |/ \----/\ | \ | / \ | \ ___/ \ ___ / Hugs, Jos_______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@owncloud.org http://mailman.owncloud.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
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