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Originally Posted by Kalcor I've lost ls-rp, crazybob's, gamerx, partyserver, rc-rp. I wouldn't get too excited about any new release.

Well, it seems that's not entirely true in the case of rc-rp at least based on TommyB's posts in this thread, although I realise bridges have been burned in regards to that particular case I don't think that means you should entirely ignore what's being said by Tommy in this thread. He's provided some statistics to back up his case and from reading this thread I think there is a strong case for having DL merge into the main branch finally and becoming 0.3.9 (or whatever you decide to call the version). There's also niCe. He has a large community from what I can tell and is giving some great feedback in this thread.

The low adoption of DL I do not think comes down to the features it enabled, more so the split that happened because of it not becoming part of the main branch but still being out in the open on the forums for people to download and use. Most people probably never come to the forums, they go to the website, see the latest release is 0.3.7, download that and play it, or they might even see that there were roughly yearly releases and then 0.3.7 in 2015 it just stopped as far as a lot of new people coming to the main website are concerned.

I genuinely believe that if DL is merged into the main branch and becomes 0.3.9 along with some minor changes that people have been suggesting in this thread it would be an overall positive release and well regarded by the community as a whole. Then there would be no more schism between DL and 0.3.7 because they'd become one and the same with some minor fixes/additions.

You might find that the feedback for the DL features increases as more servers adopt them due to it being on the main branch, and no longer needing to worry that it might be canned and their hard work on models etc. going down the drain.