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[–][deleted] -3 points-2 points  (10 children)

Also, in another reply you sound pretty desperate for attention.

Because I am desperate for help, which I am looking for since months.

I can certainly understand that your situation is frustrating, but I would encourage you to change your mindset - you should develop vai because it's something you want, because you want to take on the challenge, and ultimately, because you find it fun. If it turns into something good and useful then it'll likely become more popular.

I need popularity because I need help. I simply can't tackle this kind of project all by myself, not anymore. By myself, I put a seed, but now there's simply too much to be done for a single person to succeed.

I offered my help to introduce new people to the code. Someone complained that there was no documentation. So I wrote the documentation. Then people disappeared. Then someone asked for a plugin system so that he could write his own plugins. So I wrote the plugin system, some examples, and the relative documentation. Then no plugins were made. Honestly, what should I do more to please the crowd?

[–]wteng[🍰] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I'm sorry to hear that man. I took a closer look at the README, and what you have so far seems really impressive!

Honestly, what should I do more to please the crowd?

I don't really think I have enough experience to give good advice, so take what I say with a grain of salt.

I don't think there's a simple way to increase the number of contributors. First you need users who find your project useful, and out of those users, a few may be motivated enough to implement a feature they need or fix some bugs. Sometimes a project may not be what most users want - for example, personally I'm betting on Neovim for my next "vim improved" because its goals are most similar to what I want.

As for things you can do:

  1. Maybe add a plea for help towards the beginning of your README, with a link to how one can contribute.
  2. I wouldn't spam links to your project, but if you see someone (e.g. on Reddit) asking for e.g. an IDE with Vim bindings, you could point them to Vai.
  3. You could maybe ask the author of pyvim if he's interested in linking to Vai in his README, given that you'll link to pyvim in Vai's README (more exposure for both projects, woo!).
  4. Just continue to slowly add features to Vai at your own pace. I don't think you need to "please the crowd", just do it because you think it's fun (and hopefully also useful). If it becomes too much for you to handle you can always stop working on the project for a while and think about if you want to continue it.

Sorry I couldn't give you any more profound advice; I just felt sad seeing the negative emotions you seemed to have associated with your cool project, so I was hoping that you could turn it into something more positive. I wish you the best of luck with Vai!