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  "textContent": "> Getting back on topic though, I think another problem that's going to make people groan is... we do not have much of a social media presence.\n\nYeah, that's pretty spot on. Centralized platforms are pretty much where it's at nowadays. One could say that hitting the Pale Moon forums is literally the Pale Moon equivalent of making a Mozilla account and going on Mozilla Connect or bugzilla or whatever. The likes of GitHub are where the devs of open source projects are most active.\n\nBut I think that to switch to something else, even if its something more decentralized/niche like Matrix or XMPP, it removes us from a unique position; PM resources are maintained and available on PM's very own infrastructure. It serves at least two advantages from my perspective:\n- We are not beholden to any third-party platform.\n- It makes things easier for users to access said resources (Documentation, addons, source code, etc. etc.) since they are accessible from one location.\n- It makes Pale Moon appear more polished/professional/legitimate.\n- It shows that Pale Moon takes digital privacy seriously.\n\nI don't think that platform obscurity is an issue when it comes to open source projects, as long as the _reputation_ is substantial and positive. Mozilla/Firefox has a significantly better reputation than Pale Moon (a true but harsh fact), and Mozilla Connect is not exactly GitHub, but it is still used.\n\nOn the topic, we could learn from Mozilla; they host a mirror of their source code on GitHub, though it is read-only. We could do this as well, if we could spare the resources.\n\nIf we may want to go further, we could open up the GitHub repos to issues and pull requests etc. I honestly don't know why Mozilla wouldn't do that. They are a large organization, they can definitely take community requests from GitHub. Without doing that they have pretty much made it a requirement for all contributors to be locked into the Mozilla platform, and for what?\n\n\nAnyway, in the first place it is essential to focus on the PR. Reputation is the first priority and is definitely more important than accessibility, because this forum is not terribly inaccessible, lol. I'm really new to Pale Moon, and it wasn't a total hassle to get on here. When there's a will, there's a way. We just need the 'will' part.\n\n* * *",
  "title": "General Discussion • Re: Pale Moon's PR Problem",
  "updatedAt": "2026-05-26T04:00:05.000Z"
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