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The Importance of Communities Around Software

A new blog post argues that the communities surrounding software projects matter as much as the code itself. The author, writing on a personal Codeberg page, makes the case that healthy, engaged user and developer communities are central to whether software thrives or dies, and the piece has drawn attention among developers debating how much a project's success depends on its people rather than its technical merits.

Why now: Developers are debating whether community health, not just code quality, determines a software project's success.

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