Hey all, this has been annoying for me, too. I thought, discourse isn‘t that old (or other open source hostable solutions), so probably it’s easier to stay here. But GG is crap. I think discourse is a good Solution that can be implemented first on the side, if some „main“ people are willing to commit to do so. I mean mostly Jeremy and people who are actively developing and discussing stuff, the core community. Discourse can imo be a good discussion forum for people who are already a bit committed to a project and want to discuss it more deeply. The better searchability and more asynchronous, forum–not–feed approach quite naturally allows for deeper accumulation of knowledge which will be accessible for newbies as well. I also often am afraid that if a question of mine won’t be answered fastly, it will just drown in the endless feed... so i think a Good first step is moving discussions regarding more specific projects to discourse which are a bit more technical and not so much of concern for newer people. For example the developers group, discussion about next releases, etc. discourse can be helpful bridge between purely technical GitHub and social media, it has some functions that also enhance that afaik. If people register that they can get their deeper questions answered more thoroughly on discourse, because it has a better interface and the more expert people usually hang out there, they will move there, but not out of idealism. most discourse forums demand a login, which can be a bit offputting for complete newbies. So outlets on „mainstream“ Networks should be maintained – Reddit, the matrix channel (which is a bit undervalued :( ) , maybe this here... discord channels are also quite popular – in order to provide easy accessibility for people that are less experienced. Also I would believe someone in the tiddlycommunity could set up an instance? There are several projects involving servers, right?There also already is a tiddlywiki subgroup on fission, but I don’t think that’s for general purposes (?) TiddlyTweeter schrieb am Sonntag, 30. Mai 2021 um 08:34:37 UTC+2:
> 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/d96e07a5-d4a8-4c74-a7be-e29274a75c89n%40googlegroups.com.
