Ciao saq.i ... I don't how long you been in this group?
What I do know is regularly, over a few years, the inadequacies of Google Groups has be re-hashed several times in serious posts about it. In past discussions, some quite passionate (I wish I could QUOTE from them, but OF COURSE* I can't find them! *Lol -:), led to a number of initiatives. The most significant long-lasting one being TiddlyWiki on REDDIT, still run by Riz, https://www.reddit.com/r/TiddlyWiki5/ *What emerged is the LOGISTICS of fully switching away from this Google Group to a new forum would be VERY complicated and, finally, likely, very damaging to the existing membership base. SO, the inertia to change is necessarily huge.* MY query here is really about HOW TO MAKE THE BEST OF WHAT WE HAVE? on Google Groups. BUT, it seems, with additional recent changes by Google to its functioning what we have right now is only the FLEETING MOMENT. Meaning, GG is good for immediate discussions but NOTHING much else. (Basically it is "Usenet" thread format dating back to 1631 :-) It is terrible on Search. Upvote does not exist. Tagging posts proved to be not adequate here. *WHERE, does that leave us?* In the same place. With a forum that throws its own history down the drain every day. :-( Just comments from a normally sanguine person TT On Sunday, 30 May 2021 at 08:50:46 UTC+2 saq.i...@gmail.com wrote: > I would like to see us move to using Discourse > <https://www.discourse.org/> for discussions. In particular the search > feature is very well implemented. > > Professional hosting ranges $50-100 per month. Personally I think an Open > Collective model for where the community chips in with recurring monthly > contributions to support that would be a good way to approach it. > > On Sunday, May 30, 2021 at 8:34:37 AM UTC+2 TiddlyTweeter wrote: > >> This Google Group is OUR main end-user forum. >> >> There are problems with Google Groups. More recently it was "dumbed-down" >> by Google. A lot of tools just disappeared. That just made it worse for OUR >> needs. >> >> And, long term, it has proved to also have NO DECENT MEMORY. >> Search here is the Total Pits. >> >> WHAT happens as a result of that? >> >> A VERY common pattern that happens daily here is RE-CREATION OF THE >> WHEEL. >> GG lacks any easy, structured, way to interrogate the VAST knowledge-base >> that this GG actually IS. >> SO, again and again, you see very similar queries come up and be >> patiently RE-answered. >> >> I think a much BETTER way would be to leverage off the knowledge >> accumulated here and direct users first to already EXTANT solutions. >> >> I'm not sure it is possible. >> But repetition of the variants on the same question is a waste, I think? >> >> Just comments >> TT >> > -- 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/8343d4c7-cc4c-4dc7-8777-3f643edff910n%40googlegroups.com.
