I see that General Discussion is home to a lot of discussions about what minetest is missing, and I think this might be a simple way to make things a little better for the project.
I did a search in youtube to get the video about minetest whith the most views(155,652 right now). This is it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJU-PDp9XbU . This video is from 2011 and shows minetest as something that definitely: 1 - Is not anything like it is today and 2- is not very inviting..
After this video, in the list sorted by number of views, the next english language video has something around 30,000 views. I'm telling about english language videos because I know they reach more people in general, nothing against any language. Also, one of the most watched videos is in my first language (portuguese, you certainly could tell it was not english by now) and it describes minetest as "Minecraft for the poor"... no comments on that.
So, what's my point? Well, of course I'm not complaining about the videos those guys did, there's absolutely nothing wrong, but the thing is: don't we have any youtuber in the community? I think a youtuber that made nice videos about minetest, showing what it really is with honesty, the infinite amount of possibilities, showing that it is an engine that can be the base of a lot of different games, showing that even not having a "full-fledged" game hitherto, it has a lot of them under development by the community and some are already really fun, some really creative, and etc.. well, you got the idea, this person would be doing a lot for the project.
As I said, definitely minetest should reach more people, but it also should show what it really is to solve 2 problems: one is that a lot of people see someone talking about it as a minecraft clone and come here expecting one. This person will usually go away quickly and without contibuting anything useful. The other problem is that a lot of people who actually would be very nice to have in the community, will not even care to check the project when they hear that it's just another minecraft clone, they have more things to do. These guys could be interested after seeing the real potential of the thing.
Well, that's it, just wanted to share these thoughts. Cheers