Re: [fpc-other] Re Downward spiral

2023-05-28 Thread Steve Litt via fpc-other
HSN via fpc-other said on Sat, 27 May 2023 12:05:42 + >I want to let you know >thatNickolay is both a Lazarus developer and the owner of #fpc on >Libera irc. Nicolay is well known in this community. Everyone who >appreciates the work that he does should help support his channel >whenever they

Re: [fpc-other] Re Downward spiral

2023-05-28 Thread Steve Litt via fpc-other
Tomas Hajny via fpc-other said on Sun, 28 May 2023 17:12:23 +0200 >Both >forums and mailing lists provide higher chances to get response from >one of the FPC core team members in case of complex issues where >support of other FPC users and developers may not be sufficient. True. However, in a

Re: [fpc-other] Downward spiral

2023-05-28 Thread Travis Siegel via fpc-other
On 5/26/2023 3:31 AM, HSN via fpc-other wrote: Irc is the best chat platform for people who are present and available to chat. It also has notifications so it’s not necessary to watch it constantly. You can do other things on or near your computer while irc is running. It even works on

Re: [fpc-other] Re Downward spiral

2023-05-28 Thread Tomas Hajny via fpc-other
On 2023-05-27 14:05, HSN via fpc-other wrote: Joanna, . . One of the ways that they can do this is by helping other users in real-time chat. I suspect that many people who use fpc/Lazarus are either unaware of irc real-time chat, have been chased away by people sabotaging it or have been

[fpc-other] Downward spiral

2023-05-28 Thread HSN via fpc-other
In addition to lack of chat support we also have the problem of people who hate pascal and want to sabotage fpc project infiltrating our support channels to cause trouble and waste our time. Even the bug tracker has been trolled by someone complaining about pascal not being more like c. Sent

[fpc-other] Re Downward spiral

2023-05-28 Thread HSN via fpc-other
How many people actually use fpc/Lazarus ? I was told there were thousands and thousands of downloads. Does this mean that there are this many people using it? Or is it being downloaded for for other reasons? If it is the former, there should be no shortage of people around to participate in