Years have gone by and hundreds of comments have been written about the proposal, but the main screen still looks like this:
What do you guys think is the cause of this stagnation? Too much discussion? Too few people willing to fork it?
I’ve thought about it myself and why I didn’t contribute a new main menu and came to the following conclusion: It requires understanding Minetest’s codebase and the libraries it uses, it requires C++ experience (which I don’t have), and after all that effort there’s zero guarantee that it ever gets used.
Diffusion of responsibility, nobody wanting it enough to force the issue or shepherd it through committing to it/planning it/developing it, and/or not knowing if the considerable amount of effort will “pay off” in the sense of actually getting merged.
Note that I have no clue about Minetest specifically, I’m just guessing