Casey, Personally I call empty.html the "minimalist version", I would prefer a "standard edition" be officially released with a few simple customisations so the new users don't start totally raw.
I believe empty.html should only be used by experienced users building a new solution from the ground up. The following is a summary of how I understand and use the concepts of empty.html and editions. Understanding this means I have no fears as you expressed but a strategies to optimise my use. Because there is no standard edition, I have made my own, but for ease of use I have built a Bookmarklet (Favourite containing java-script) that I click and it changes settings and adds some tools I like, on every wiki. I do this when I visit tiddlywiki.com. I do not include plugins so I need not save and reload on read only wikis. The alternatives to empty, or a personal standard edition is below, a comprehensive list as I see it. - empty.html - Standard edition (does not exist) - Customisation - personal "standard edition" (my bookmarklet) - a "published edition" eg like stroll, and many others - a Bespoke edition (Build up by with selected plugins and macros) - A personal template edition. - A Playground edition - Demo sites - Plugin editions *Published editions* - These are a way for someone to package a suite of tools in a "pre-made" edition. ie already packaged, for you by someone. - Some are just putting together otherwise published tools (you could replicate your self, but it demonstrates something) - Others are published tools and bespoke changes - Published editions a great way for people who do not make plugins to package a solution they have designed - If a published edition is up-gradable, often is, all depends on the way the author built it - Why upgrade if it works? - Test upgrade if you want and if it does not work let the author know. *Bespoke editions* - Not really and addition at all, build from empty.html for a purpose - Can make into a *Personal template edition* - many plugins work well together, it is often clear when they won't because they change common aspects of the one wiki. *Personal template editions.* - Build your own template editions from "bespoke editions" and use these to generate new wikis, - usually a few for different purposes - May be based on other editions *Playground editions* - You can have your own for experimenting - But I published one here https://anthonymuscio.github.io/playground.html - Has local storage installed so you can add plugins and reload - All changes remain in the browser *Demo sites* - t is common practice for plugin and macro developers to publish a demo site - You can actually download these and use it as a starting edition. Plugin editions - Ideally anyone building an addition could build a plugin or JSON file of all the components that turns empty.html into a custom edition. In closing I have a range of methods to manage multiple wikis, shared and installable features too involved to document here. I am more likely to extract methods used in Published editions than I am to use the edition, to make my own. But then I have being in the tiddlyverse for a while now. Regards Tony On Saturday, 12 September 2020 05:45:00 UTC+10, Casey wrote: > > With the plethora of awesome customized versions of tiddlywiki.... I'm > wondering how many of you use just the core version of tiddly wiki? My fear > with using some of the customized ones is that they are awesome for a few > months until they are no longer updated. > > Does anyone share these same fears? Who else out there is only using > TiddlyWIki core? > I'm a new tiddlywiki user and just getting started. Its awesome to have a > lot of options, but I'm just not sure where to invest my time. > > > > -- 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/2a9b7b77-1225-437d-b1e6-f5c7fd28cb75o%40googlegroups.com.
