If you know of someone who would be interested in joining us, give them this link
https://hyperxtalk.discourse.group/invites/p3CsfC54mR
It’s good for a hundred people and 90 days, so if it expires I’ll make a new invite link
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One definition ex ante, as in all good research contexts:
I would define HyperXTalk as an initiative for reliable long-term community-supported code-managed provision (and possibly further development) of a stable multi-platform LiveCode FOSS version (debranded to the max, as the original authors wish to have it this way) so that the plethora of code produced in this environment over many years has a chance to live on. Please discuss if I got anything wrong! I personally would greatly enjoy if we could keep this focus.
As we talk about targeted invitations to the initiative (also in the chat) and I am prone to linking to historically relevant threads, this very comprehensive one here gives additional ideas, but it is also telling that it did not move on. It has five participants,
- four of which are owners of GitHub accounts and with system knowledge possibly very helpful for the work here
- three of which use or used GitHub actively
- two of which at least having written pull requests for engine and IDE (still in limbo for obvious reasons)
- and one we have talked about is already present, praise the Lord.
I might have linked to this thread before in the compilation topics, sorry for repeating then. 
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Just noting that some activity has returned to this OXT group on Facebook, so as soon as an HXT build (esp MacOS) is mature enough, it might be sensible to post a note about it there or send invites to users there.
Well, I took a quick look (as much as I could as I don’t have a Facebook account). If there is someone from there you think would be a good fit for here, then by all means, give them the invite code.
I don’t understand. The last post to the “OpenXTalk Programming” group on FB is dated 2022.
As this project moves along it does make sense to invite interested potential users, but I’m not sure that group has enough to make it a focus.
I can assist with social media outreach as needed. I have a research project that has me on several socmed platforms daily, so it’s no inconvenience.
I’m not on social media so any help you can give in that department would be helpful.
You two make me dig deeper than I ever wanted to. 
@FourthWorld I agree that traffic is not adequate to justify strategic socmed campaigns, not there and not anywhere else. This is not what I have in mind.
If you click on the above link to the group you will see it is Mark Schonewille’s well-known old group, renamed in 2021 to “OpenXTalk Developers”. Is there even another Facebook group on our niche subject? Hopefully not. Please confirm.
You are almost to the point about traffic there, but after long stretches of silence or disarray after 2022, recently two or three people have appeared who test the waters with OXT, and I noticed again that there are old-timers that I have not seen anywhere else on forums.
@Emily-Elizabeth The group content is public, I am also not logged in. But Facebook likes to give different streams to different people, I know.
It is not a substantial point now, and I will follow your advice, and might have a chat with 4W about how to proceed, if we find the time. 
Alrighty, I’ll leave the social media “campaign” up to you guys 
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When I first went to the group, it wanted me to login, so I cancelled that and was able to scroll for a bit and then a uncancelable (is that even a word?) dialog wanted me to login to read more.
Yes, I know this behavior. Not at this group for me. I have no idea why. It is all a reason why some people just don’t go to Facebook. We are all mere currency in this world.
I only had a search result leading there. And of course I know the group from earlier visits.
Ah, Mark’s group. I was banned from that group several years ago; no reason or warning of banishment was provided. I can guess, but in the absence of open clear communication I’d only be guessing.
The group I’d referred to is Paul’s:
I don’t know if others that may be around, and it seems early to do much with evangelism at the moment. I’ve been inviting individuals, and may be able to help with a more public awareness as things get further along.
See, I didn’t know (or have forgotten about) Paul’s group. Obvious reason: “Private - Only members can see who’s in the group and what they post.” Hard to become a member without an active login. Paul and Seth are also advocating OXT on MarkS’s group, while you have been banned there, okay. I really wonder now if I should join the People’s Front for xTalk (PFX), the xTalk People’s Front (XPF), the xTalk Popular People’s Front (XPPF), the People’s Popular Front of xTalk (PPFX) or the Campaign for a Free xTalk (CFX).
We may advance with just a little help from our friends.
Perhaps I’ve been banned more broadly than I’d known, as I can’t even see any other relevant groups with “xTalk” in their name beyond Paul’s.
If these are in jest, I do very much like “People’s Popular Front of xTalk” for the absurdity alone, and would consider starting such a group at the appropriate time.
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