I mean that there is too many resources scattered in too many places. Having a list right at TiddlyWiki.com would mean that people didn't have to go to a forum to find out that they can go to a site and so forth.
With a simple list, people could submit their plugins either to the forum directly to git-hub. There would be a standard format for the tiddlers so they would automatically get listed correctly. Any person could submit. Since it's part of TW, it wouldn't get orphaned. Alternatively, there already is a plugin download tool in TW for officially recognized plugins. Why not have a second settings tab that lists all known plugins for download with the caveat that they have not been tested. This is the approach taken by Firefox and most browsers and many applications (like Calibre). You can look for plugins right inside the app. You don't have to find a site or forum, or wade through posts, or ask for help -- it's all right there available straight from the app. Thanks, Mark On Thursday, April 27, 2017 at 12:34:29 PM UTC-7, Mat wrote: > > Mark S. wrote: >> >> Instead of another unrecognized 3rd-party system, why not have a page >> that lists and describes Plugins at TiddlyWiki.com? Similar to the >> community listings except consolidated in one page. The individual >> description tiddlers could follow a standard format so people could copy >> and submit (possibly right to this forum) new plugins. >> > > I'm a bit unsure of the term "unrecognized 3rd-party system" but if it is > TWederation you refer to, it could probably be a native feature in TW if > good enough. (Jeremy made a prototype for it, different from Jeds, during > last years TW European Meeting so I think he is positive to it.) Its "core > features" is/could be not all different from the plugin library were you > download what you want. Kind of. > > But a "page with a list" still has the same problem as the many earlier > efforts: Even if people report plugins, who would *maintain* that list? > Update it. Clean out non working ones. Possibly for years. This is one of > the things that makes Jeremys efforts so incredible; it's not that the > lists on tiddlywiki.com are superb (because they're not! Much because of > us not reporting plugins) but that all other attempts by community members > to make plugin repositories, recommended lists, etc have simply withered. > > Plus, a plugin list is a one-trick-pony. Admittedly, this thread is about > "how to find plugins" but the general problem is of course how people > should find (and find out about) everything concerning TW. > > But, hey, these are just my pessimistic interpretations. Anyone is welcome > to set up any solution. I definitely hope it would solve the problems! > > <:-) > -- 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 post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/0b65bdf5-5d40-4a99-95af-525baab0b434%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
