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submitted 3 years ago by MarcellusDrum@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

I'm new here, so I'd like to know if this project is growing steadily or not really catching on. It has a lot of potentioal imho, but I understand how hard it is to make people use "alternative" websites.

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[-] wiki_me@lemmy.ml 19 points 3 years ago

generally speaking adding code to the main code base requires a maintenance overhead maintainers might not be willing to accept, Also there could be disagreements about important design decisions and lemmy devs might not want certain features, it's really hard to know in advance what works best so third party extensions can help a project switch from a mode of "intelligent design" to "evolution", people just try stuff and the best stuff stays and become popular.

Also advanced features might clutter the UX , but power users could be the ones driving the popularity of the platform so that's one way to attract them.

[-] min_fapper@iusearchlinux.fyi 14 points 1 year ago

Also performance. Add-ons tend to be opt in, so they don't cause things to slow down for people that don't use them.

[-] wiki_me@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago

If you don't mind me asking, how did you get to this comment? it's over then two years old (and seems like your not the only one because someone upvoted you).

[-] PotjiePig@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

I too have been sent here. It's at the top of hot right now.

Seems to be a Lemmy zombie post glitch that needs to be addressed.

[-] briongloid@aussie.zone 12 points 1 year ago

I didn't even realise I was looking at a 2y old post

[-] ewe@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Samesies. Very random. Also on hot are things that I would consider new.

[-] wiki_me@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I don't see it, maybe you should open a bug or post on "lemmy support".

[-] Limitedeffort@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Zombie or not this is still relevant and useful

[-] zahel@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

It’s definitely odd, there’s also a 4 year old post in my current feed

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