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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lehmden" data-source="post: 1251251" data-attributes="member: 109222">Hi.I don't think the devs don't care. I'm pretty sure they simply don't have the time to do such clean up stuff. By the way, I always had the impression that most devs still are working on MP1 not MP2. Different point of view...<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> Not only the number of active devs, the whole MP community is shrinking rapidly. This is for many reasons. Many people are no longer in the need for a HTPC as most Smart TV can stream Netflix and Amazon Prime much better than MP (no matter if MP1 or MP2). And if they want more, they add a FireTV or an Android TV Box to their TV... Aside this the classic linear TV is loosing more and more of it's importance. Most of my younger relationship didn't even plug in the antenna cable to their TV. Ethernet is enough...  So why on earth those people should fiddle with a very complicate piece of software running on a big, noisy and expensive PC??? This is valid for nearly every HTPC software, not only MediaPortal. MediaPortal has a massive drawback build-in right from the beginning. In the older days where MP was born nobody could ever imagine that anything else than Windows will be more than a niche solution. But today Windows has lost it's former glory due to completely different hardware development. Most people are surfing, mailing and even playback media with smartphone and tablet, not with a PC any longer and on only very little of those devices the OS is Windows. Also it's very understandable that the fathers and mothers of MP were using "Windows only" technology to create MP, today this turned into a big disadvantage. Sadly this will lead to the death of MP sooner or later, I'm pretty sure. You can see it everywhere. The TV engine, the former flagship of MP, has fallen far behind solutions like TVHeadend or NextPVR (just to name free software, no commercial ones), at least as it comes to supporting "modern" hardware... There is more hardware sold with pre- installed Kodi per week than a copy of MP is downloaded per year. No point in blaming the "marketing" of MP. MP simply can not work on those good selling and cheap ARM based systems with mostly Android (or Android- based) operating systems... Even with this huge user base, Kodi is short on devs. So how should our very tiny community (compared to Kodi) should handle all this "not so important" things in short time???</blockquote>

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