Oof, I have had *minor* annoyances with Google Groups posting, but sounds like nothing near what you guys (Soren / Saq) have been having. That does make things more urgent in my opinion.
*Plugins* As we contemplate migrating the community to another platform, aside from making it nicer / more stable to post, and making it easier to find posts, I'd personally be most interested in the potential for using the same platform for "plugins". I bring this up, because this could/would compete with the current links.tiddlywiki.com effort. Don't get me wrong, I love the concept, but I think it could be improved on, and I think those improvements would be easy/built-in on another forum platform. Most notably to make it easy for *all* users to upvote to get some ranking going. I think this is helpful for the new-user experience. When I start with other software that has user-plugin capabilities (image editing software paint.net - forums.getpaint.net for instance) I'll usually go to the plugins and expect to see the most common popular ones up top and look at those first. The thing about *user-generated* plugins is that you *don't know* if those plugins work now, or if they'll continue to work. But, as a shortcut if you know they're very widely used, and greatly liked you can feel a little more confident that someone is either maintaining it, or would take it over if it became abandoned. I realize that there is a way for people to contribute (reading the "How To Contribute" page now), but given that it requires doing a "Github pull request" which even *I* don't understand, let's just agree it could be a bit easier for new users without developer backgrounds. *Maintenance* On a related note, there's discussion here about some level of maintenance of the information - Jeremy has brought it up a couple of times in this thread. Obviously one way to get that is to have a good ranking / voting system like I mention above. I'm also curious if anyone here has any knowledge of "free internships"? At my company we have an intern program that's obviously not free, but I feel like I've heard of some voluntary open-source software companies having / working with people who are willing to work on a free internship - basically just for resume building. Maybe that's something that somebody here knows could be an option? On Monday, June 7, 2021 at 4:05:40 AM UTC-4 saq.i...@gmail.com wrote: > >> However, the editing experience, while it used to be tolerable, has >> become horrendous since the latest UI “upgrade”. I regularly have the >> screen get corrupted or lose data (wtf, how did this become acceptable), >> and doing code formatting is a huge pain now. >> >> >> I generally compose via email but my understanding is that it is no >> longer straightforward to make monospaced blocks, which does indeed seem >> pretty poor. >> > > Jeremy just so you are aware, the issues with posting via the web > interface go beyond just difficulty in making monospaced blocks. Like > Soren, I often experience that the UI glitches out and I lose what I have > written. Combined with the difficulties in replying from mobile, I find > myself rarely having enough motivation to participate in the group now. > > I've tried to attach a screenshot of what writing this post was like... > > [image: Screenshot 2021-06-07 100214.png] > -- 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/991f387a-e5bd-42ca-a3dd-6df12eaa96e4n%40googlegroups.com.
