Mark, we do not know if GG exist i 2 or 3 years - we do not even know how many would be left to return to GG or go to somewhere else. If the move is a success - and everybody or most people move and like it. Success. If a lot of people are lost in the moving and too many gradually leave - not so much.
On Saturday, August 21, 2021 at 5:47:42 PM UTC+2 Mark S. wrote: > So mostly it's the meta issues that concern me. > > First, someone is paying for Discourse, right? It's not free like GG. Is > that sustainable, or will we back at GG in 2 or 3 years? > > Second, is the search better on Discourse? Because that was the main > concern about GG -- things become lost in the mist of time (the mist of > time being more than two weeks ago). > > Thanks! > > On Saturday, August 21, 2021 at 6:25:59 AM UTC-7 TW Tones wrote: > >> Folks, >> >> Personally I have used many kinds of forums and conversational systems >> and the good ones have a number of features that you find are needed and >> help both with communications and adoption. Discourse has many if not all >> these features, and sure they may be implemented differently in different >> solutions, but in the long run all of these are needed. It may take a >> little longer to get used to the way it works, but from my experience it is >> about what we need in the long run not simply what we may want initially. >> >> With my experience I have found Discourse a walk in the park, with the >> odd little exception. Why, because almost everything Discourse does or >> permits, is in a wide range of similar solutions. What I am trying to say >> is much of it is industry standard and learning Discourse will be reusable >> skills you can use in other places. This is not just learning about a >> particular product but learning about the state of the art in collaboration >> systems. >> >> Sure we can criticise any system for sure, nothing is perfect, but if >> helps hearing someone experienced in such things such as myself, it is all >> going to be worth it, its moving forward in a big step and it is largely >> based on standard practices. I urge you to push through the barriers to >> change or the new because we will all be rewarded. >> >> I would also add, I have tried to get us to move before now and it was >> like herding cats, if we have any momentum at all I think we should move to >> an alternative, especially since Google has let us down big time. Eg No >> code, no mobile, are you kidding Google! >> >> Regards >> Tones >> On Saturday, 21 August 2021 at 22:49:19 UTC+10 strikke...@gmail.com >> wrote: >> >>> I signed up a few days ago and have looked around to get to know it - >>> and hopefully find something I liked about it. In between looking around >>> and reading- I started up a few "comfort" tiddlywikis. >>> >>> It looks rather complicated to me. Time will hopefully help. >>> A lot of users over quite some time discussing tiddlywiki, and not forum >>> details will make it more interesting. But I realise that right now - it is >>> necessary to get the forum the way it can be - and users need help. - to >>> later be able to tell everyone else how easy it really is. >>> >>> Sorry - it might be my age. >>> >>> @Mohammad, >>> The tutorial is nice and start when signing in - I wonder why so many >>> did not find it. >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/5b42ca8e-b480-4c37-9f31-70caa95b1df1n%40googlegroups.com.
