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

Meta jared771 at gmail.com
Wed Dec 30 16:35:43 UTC 2020


On Monday, 28 December 2020 at 17:31:21 UTC, Murilo wrote:
> In the past 2 weeks we went from 225 to 240 members in our 
> Facebook 
> group(https://www.facebook.com/groups/ProgrammingInDlang), an 
> average of a person per day. First it was an average of a 
> person per month or less. I wonder if someone has advertised 
> the group or the world is finally embracing Dlang now.
>
> In 2018 I didn't find a single Dlang Facebook active group, 
> there were 1 or 2 very old groups with no members. So I created 
> one and I've been working hard to make it official and big, it 
> worked! At first I added my friends list to give it number but 
> then, as people joined it, I removed all of my friends and left 
> only people who joined voluntarily, there were only 150, over 
> time it grew to 225 and now we are getting close to 250.
>
> At first there was only a post per week, all posted by me, now 
> I don't need to post something every week because the members 
> are already doing it themselves, there is regular activity 
> including posts and discussions.
>
> I'm very happy, at first the people here did not like my idea, 
> they thought a Facebook group was unnecessary, but what is the 
> biggest social media in the world? Facebook! So that's is the 
> best way to communicate with the world and advertise Dlang.
>
> Cheers.

Cool, I didn't know this exists. Congrats on 200+ members; that's 
no mean feat!


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