[TYPO3-dev] not amused...

[Denyer Ec]

I've said many times elsewhere, users do not use maillinglists :)

People are wondering why Joomla and Drupal have such a large
following, the answer is to me quite simple. They have up-front,
UNIFIED and accessible communities. The unified part is important
here, their community is central and under the main product's banner.
It's not subjugated down on to some random un-affiliated domain
elsewhere, it's on the same page they download the product from. With
TYPO3 the community is scattered and if a newbie manages to find the
parts that do exist, people (not all, but many I see) would seem to
tell a new guy "Typo3 is a serious CMS, don't build your silly little
blog with it" than help them get through the intimidating first few
weeks. Fine, time is money, but those concerned about the community as
a whole realise that new blood is fundamental to success. People say
"We don't need a forum, we have a mailling  list" but as I have
intimated in the past, USERS do not use mailling lists and USERS are
the people that Typo3 really needs to reach out to!

Your future serious developers start out with silly little sites!

It might be frustrating to stop to help every newbie under the sun get
Typo3 installed successfully, but until the elitism is dropped out of
the system Typo3 will never achieve the same kind of market share.
That "annoying kid" who couldn't get the installer to work visits IRC,
though he's never heard of a maillinglist because he went to College
in the 21st century. He's told that perhaps he should try something
simpler, like Joomla... He tries Joomla, gets it working thanks to
their tutorials and forum support (And simpler user experience) and
does a year of freelancing. Then he moves to a big company and starts
advocating for the system he knows.... Joomla. (Substitute Drupal in
there if you want, the point is the same.)

No-one everyone starts out as a competent developer, until Typo3
manages to embrace that reality and starts catering for the beginners
it will always trail the pack in terms of userbase. Take a look at the
Drupal UX project as an example. Well communicated and open to the
community, which of course it can be because their community is all in
one place :)

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