[fpc-pascal] What to do to get new users
Sven Barth
pascaldragon at googlemail.com
Wed Oct 16 23:34:21 CEST 2024
Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal <fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> schrieb am
Mi., 16. Okt. 2024, 16:07:
> Another point is that FPC doesn’t have an official forum except for the
> mail list and that in and of itself is a problem if you ask me. Most young
> people don’t use email and won’t like this. I myself don’t prefer the mail
> list over some of the very nice forums that allow posting code and very
> easy to use and browse information.
>
The official forum for Free Pascal is the Lazarus forum. It does not make
sense to split the community even further (which it had been back when FPC
had its own forum till it was decided that the Lazarus forum is the way to
go).
> You can’t even easily browse the old messages compared to other services.
> I would much prefer what https://discourse.llvm.org/ does and many others
> for example. I brought this up a while ago and people didn’t seem to like
> the idea. Very well but for new users I think you’re shooting yourself in
> foot by not have a competitive way to get help.
>
No, thank you.
Regards,
Sven
>
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