Our community seems to have grown, so many people are joining the Facebook group

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Wednesday, 30 December 2020 at 02:31:36 UTC, Murilo wrote:
> On Tuesday, 29 December 2020 at 15:06:07 UTC, Ola Fosheim 
> Grøstad wrote:
>> No, the OP clearly stated that he made the group "official". 
>> That is a deliberate attempt to fracture.
> I'm sorry you see it like this but my intention when I created 
> the group was to expand Dlang by bringing it to places people 
> couldn't find it yet. The whole point of the FB group is to 
> aggregate people into our community, to bring more people to 
> Dlang and make Dlang famous. My whole intention was to help our 
> community grow, not fracture.

I have no issues with what you do or don't do. I have issues with 
the complete lack of strategic visions and decision making on 
multiple levels in the D community. The question is not what you 
should or should not do, but how the D community approach 
community building and respond to changes in the environment.

Just redirect people who cannot get their problems resolved in 
your group to the learn forum then they get the best of both 
worlds. :-)

No, what I find disturbing is that people don't think long term 
and that the greater world is viewed as something that "just 
happens". It is quite obvious that Go and Rust is doing a better 
job at putting forth visions for the language, making strategic 
choices and executing. They also do so in terms of community out 
reach.

Quite frankly, right now, fracturing is the only possibility for 
D. The current setup without solid moderation of the D forums 
cannot sustain a large population. When the number of 
participants is large the community will get more toxic. Which is 
not good.

Also, it is a problem that the learn forum is hidden away.

So fracturing on your part, is not the main issue, the main issue 
is that nobody has a strategy for making sure that the main hub 
can grow nor is there a strategy for making sure that people 
gravitate towards it. The strategy seems to be to make it less 
visible to avoid that people find it. ;-)

It would not surprise me if you manage to grow your group to a 
50/50 split. Is that a fracture, sure. But, right now, fracturing 
is envitable if growth is to take place anyway. The source for 
this would not be what you do, but what the D community is 
unwilling to do (or think about).