I had written a longer and more detailed reply but par for the course, the UI glitched out and I lost part of the post.
On Sunday, May 30, 2021 at 10:34:06 PM UTC+2 Mat wrote: > > Yeah, no doubt it would be a substantial effort. But on the other hand > there's no particular rush > As I said, if you stay within the GG group bubble it's easy to ignore the plight of users both current and prospective who are not comfortable with using or signing up for GG. > So just "registering a new TW group" somewhere... poor idea. > I don't think anyone has suggested that in this thread, otherwise I'd have a discourse up and running for TW already. At it's cheapest it costs $10/ month to self host it, closer to $20 with a higher user count. Discussion around this topic as a community is needed precisely because user dissatisfaction with GG is growing and there are actually good options available at this time. > IMO eating our own dog food would bring things closer together. > I've been hearing variations of this since 2008. The difference is there weren't any really well put together open source alternatives back then, there are now. > But I know; talk is cheap, especially from someone who doesn't really know what it takes. It is very easy to underestimate the time and resources it would take to invent our own forum solution. Not to mention that most of that work wouldn't be universally useful and we would still need to pay for hosting and maintenance. If as a community we can't pull together $50 a month for hosting fees at this time, we *definitely* don't have the resources to take this on. Nor would it be the best prioritization of resources even if we did. -- 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/c3fea8b3-5447-4b0d-90c5-f388fb514c95n%40googlegroups.com.
