[n0minal]

I just think you're underestimating 0.3DL based on the numbers you got from an unofficial version, the lack of interest on SAMP modeling is directly linked to the fact that it's unofficial IMHO. When 0.3.8 was canceled I felt really disappointed and switched back to 0.3.7 cause I knew most of my concurrent servers wouldn't switch to a forked version, same thing remains nowadays, so people won't migrate unless everyone else does too.

Getting LSRP as an example, despite they had a peak of users after switching over to 0.3DL, their number decreased again because some of the hyped players moved away and their current players just did not switch over to 0.3DL cause if they do so, they wouldn't be able to play other servers when they tired of role-playing.

I still think you should listen the community, huge developers are still around and active doing their servers, just take niCe for example and TommyB, and we are all asking you the same man, merge DL into 0.3.9 please, just do a config to enable or disable model downloading and it'll be fine.