That was it for me too. In the space of a month, it went from this friendly, reasonably understandable thing, to this borg-like mega-corporation thing. HAL* doesn't really cater to "little people" -- that's not their mission statement. * Advance each letter one step On Thursday, November 25, 2021 at 4:09:23 AM UTC-8 [email protected] wrote:
> @Jan > I was quite keen on noteself, had it set up and everything but then after > the takeover, Couch DB moved past my tolerance for banging my head against > software and it killed it for me. I suspect that was true for others. > > On Monday, 22 November 2021 at 20:06:16 UTC [email protected] wrote: > >> That would be very cool. >> >> *Comments* >> >> Other than technical coolness, what would be the advantage of it? From >> just a user perspective (i.e. forget technical stuff) what reason would I >> have to want that? >> >> You're talking technological "wowness", but bring it back to "in the >> trenches" "daily usage" terms for a typical user: why should he/she care? >> >> To investigate how people use TiddlyWiki, what choices they make, and >> why, you will get more responses over at TiddlyTalk. It has become the >> fan-favourite. >> >> Me, I much prefer Google Groups, so I am very happy to reply here: >> >> *My use cases* >> >> *Personal TiddlyWiki* >> >> I store all of my personal TiddlyWiki instances on Google Drive. >> TiddlyWiki aside, if I have no access to the internet, any computer is >> useless to me. >> >> However, since I have offline access to my files on Google Drive, my >> Chromebook isn't quite the brick folk would think it is ... >> >> Most important to me is to have access to all of my things in Google >> Drive from any connected device anywhere. >> >> Having my TiddlyWiki instances tied to databases of a web browser on some >> machine? Nope, not for me. Unless whatever you come up with has auto-syn >> with the cloud, I won't be using it. >> >> A big draw to single-file TiddlyWiki: 10 years from now, however long a >> TiddlyWiki has gathered dust, I can open it and everything will be right >> thre. >> >> *Multi-User TiddlyWik* >> >> In this case, TiddlyWiki instances I've setup in virtual machines using >> cloud services. >> >> So that I can take advantage of all the goodness that is nodejs >> TiddlyWiki. All of them tiddlers sitting in individual text files, right >> where I want them. >> >> Although what you describe would be, I think, of no interest to me here, >> the ability to have these TiddlyWiki instances able to access databases on >> these servers, so that the TiddlyWiki instances could have access to data >> coming from other systems? That would get my attention. >> >> On Monday, November 22, 2021 at 6:26:58 AM UTC-4 V wrote: >> >>> Hi. >>> >>> I have been following the TW project for years and I am still very >>> surprised that the community continues to actively support super strange, >>> inconvenient and limited ways of saving and synchronizing – but at the same >>> time all developments using normal technologies on which synchronization >>> could be easy, seamless and safe, such as CouchDB, are not supported in >>> official release and abandoned by community. >>> >>> Especially considering the new data storage format in JSON, with which >>> synchronization with object databases has never been easier. It's even >>> easier than maintaining the current server solution on files, which in >>> principle cannot work offline, unlike a solution based on >>> IndexedDB+PouchDB→CouchDB or IndexedDB→Mongo/Posrgres. >>> >>> I have used PouchDB adapter from NoteSelf, but it's outdated and >>> contains a lot of bugs. Other solutions were outdated even earlier. >>> >>> If IndexedDB/CouchDB solution were supported out of the box, there would >>> be no reason at all to use paid solutions like Evernote or Notion for >>> personal notes. >>> >>> Based on discussions & repo, it seems that no movement in this direction >>> is planned. >>> >>> I have only one question – why? >>> Is it really more convenient for everyone to save files in Dropbox using >>> crutches, constantly losing changes between devices and merging conflicts? >>> >>> Are these some kind of ideological reasons? >>> >>> >>> -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/1bb58cd0-92e9-4199-8f5b-00833aecead0n%40googlegroups.com.
