Why are you assuming that GG won't be here in 2 or 3 years? Are you willing to pay $5 per month just to have a different forum, that may not actually be significantly better than what we have now?
I have a forum with groups.io. After the initial transfer fee it has been free. It includes mail services. It works just like you would expect a forum to work. I can't help but feel that people jumped on Discourse because it's the shiny software of the day. Maybe we should have a pledge drive thread. People can promise to pay $5 a month for a year to sustain Discourse. I would guess that you need at least 25 enlistees because there's going to be people who lose interest after a few months when they realize that a forum is just a forum. On Saturday, August 21, 2021 at 12:04:43 PM UTC-7 strikke...@gmail.com wrote: > 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/ac660304-5398-4de7-86f9-159f6a83ca52n%40googlegroups.com.
