# A newcomer's perspective

**URL:** https://discourse.pijul.org/t/a-newcomers-perspective/980
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**Created:** [September 10, 2022, 1:10am UTC](https://discourse.pijul.org/t/a-newcomers-perspective/980 "2022-09-10T01:10:57Z")
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### Author: ![joyously](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/discourse.pijul.org/joyously/32/266_2.png) [@joyously](https://discourse.pijul.org/u/joyously)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2022, 3:27pm UTC](https://discourse.pijul.org/t/a-newcomers-perspective/980/9 "2022-09-10T15:27:09Z")

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Sorry for how that came across, but it _is_ how it looks from the outside…

Edit: you also made a [comment](https://discourse.pijul.org/t/please-explain-channels/901/) to that effect at one point

> [@Please explain channels](https://discourse.pijul.org/t/please-explain-channels/901/8):
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> The main reason I wrote them (and spent years writing and polishing Pijul’s backend, called Sanakirja) is to make it mentally easy for the majority, which is sadly mostly made of Git users, to switch to Pijul.

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