I've struggled bringing friends into this game, I brought in two but they didn't last very long, the game has a very steep learning curve, I don't want that to change but I want new players to be able to ease into the community and that can motivate them to keep going, and before you know it the community is growing fast again, I personally like hanging out with the newbies in-game because they are less toxic than some of the other players. And I enjoy helping them out, the same was done for me, I had multiple people help me out on my journey e.g Ravager, DashSora. I hope we can all do the same. I think one big factor is that we don't treat newbies nicely, I see lots of them being insulted and no wonder they get discouraged.