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Originally Posted by Dermo
The problem with implementing EVERYTHING into JJ2 is that you shoot down potentially good programs (like JJM) and programmers (like sfaizst). I don't think you realize that JJM has the potential to go far, but by drawing people away from it, you have just stopped the creation. And you're the one who wants to go forth and procreate?
Now I understand what Sfaizst was saying about a monopoly. Not even giving other programs a chance. People are going to give up. And when Blur leaves the community (eventually), everything's going to come to a standstill, since you have shot down every potential programmer out there. They won't want anything to do with JJ2, they would rather focus their programming to somewhere where they get recognition.
So let us worship blur as he shuts down everything. I don't like the direction this community is currently going, I'm sorry.
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I'm sorry, but I have to disagree with you on several points.
First: The point of JJM is not to let Sfaizst learn to program. The point is to give people a cool, useful application that improves their Jazz playing experience. And it does this quite well. If people realize JJM's features are awesome and want to add them to JJ2+, so what? This will achieve the same end of improving Jazz.
Second: The idea of preventing one application from having a feature because the other already has it first is very counter productive. This would foster many new programmers possibly, but you'd just end up with a ton of random cheap add ons that each barely improve Jazz. In addition, nothing would be compatible. Some servers would run plus only, others would make JJM only levels, others still would have yet another program.
Third: JJM is being given just as good a chance as plus. There have been several different add-ons for Jazz over the years, and plus is now the predominantly used one because it is the best. If JJM becomes the best, it will be the one everyone uses. Don't expect people to start using JJM simply for the sake of diversity, because they won't. If it's truly as good as you claim, be patient and it will beat out plus eventually.
Fourth: There will always be programmers. No one's going to decide against writing something Jazz related because at one point in Jazz's long history, one new program did not instantly become more popular than the one everyone already had.
Don't get me wrong, JJM does some cool things. And I'd love to see it become popular. But much more than that, I'd like to see the Jazz community have a really nice add-on, whether the name's JJ2+, JJM, or something else entirely.
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