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I think it's even worse than that, I suspect there have been a lot of companies like CA that have had their access cut off and have retained the data. FB probably has never done a serious investigation of most of them.

This one is only important because it's gotten so much media attention. If it wasn't related to the election it would have been business as usual and nobody would care or know about CA.

Great list. I've bookmarked this and already identified many interesting articles to read, in particular your articles on sales should be helpful as that is where I have the least experience.

happy to see MariaDB getting some investment, hoping it will continue growing.

This made me smile. Good work.

ps: a nice big demo button beside 'View on Github' and 'Release Notes' would be a nice tweak :)

what marketing did you try and what did you find really worked?

I've got a side project that I'll hopefully be launching this month and I would love some tips.

This was definitely fun to try.

It makes sense to me that larger projects would use forums, just to make sure you don't pollute issues too heavily.

TBH when I do interact with projects on github I'm mostly interacting with smaller projects and maybe issues are 'good enough' there.

For the larger projects they tend to have better documentation or I can have questions answered on stack overflow, maybe that's why I haven't run into this yet.

I'm wondering if you would have success trying to target projects that are growing rapidly or are in a mid range of popularity. Ideally the product is also giving back to the github repo authors, maybe it's automatically creating an FAQ for them?

I hope some of this helps :)

BE: Scala/akka http FE: Scala.js, SASS, no bootstrap

This is a really excellent article about making and launching things. In particular the notes on how you changed your messaging for different communities is excellent.

my 2 cents.

github issues seems to be where most interaction with the community happens. It might be a bit of abuse for their intended purposes but every time I've had a question a github issue usually gets an answer pretty quickly.

What use cases does the forum service fullfil that github issues isn't a 'good enough' solution for?

A quick look at the documentation and it seems like this might hit a sweet spot in replacing Make, is that the intended goal?

Also what other builtins are planned?

what types of features do you think would make it more useful for this use case?

This is a great list, thanks for putting this together. As a small feature request it would be great if I could see more of the apps at once, I think infinite scroll or just more apps per page would be nice.