Maybe the problem is the "wiki" part of the name. People looking for alternatives to a product know to look up something like "program like lotus 123". But most people don't need or want an alternative to a "wiki". The people who do want an alternative to existing wikis (and we know who you are) already know where to look.
So is TW really a Wiki? Or a personal information manager? I was just looking at the "alternativeto.net" site and noticed that they include TW as a competitor to various wikis, not to Evernote(tm). All of the competitive Wiki's also have low activity counts. The top open-source evernote competitor is listed as Laverna. Maybe rebranding as InfoSlicer, Rememberall, InfoCache (or something more creative) would put TW on more people's radars. Mark On Saturday, August 26, 2017 at 10:42:56 AM UTC-7, @TiddlyTweeter wrote: > > Ciao Mark S. > > Maybe I'm fogging the waters? Not my intent. My point was not activity > level per se. Here is WELL ACTIVE. It is a really excellent group. > > I come into it in perhaps a different way than you. I'm not thinking the > comparison point is Zim et al. I came into it from a background in regular > expressions, CKEditor and TinyMCE -- my initial guess being that TiddlyWiki > could be a superb front-end for them. THEN, I slowly realised, its > brilliant for much, much more. Its in the same league as them. The 500,000 > plus. > > It was more sheer numbers who are active here I was meaning. > > The numbers here still look LOW to me to have the needed muscle for > innovation on bigger changes on the context we work in. Activity is largely > focused on "getting-on-with-it" and less on changing > "how-to-get-on-with-it". It would be great if we could do more to improve > things. But, how, sustainably? Numbers matter to that IMO. > > Your suggestion for, basically, highlighting plugins (and maybe "bundles") > does look much more workable than wholesale migration--the option in the > offing after the last big round on discussion about "what to do on > documenting what already is". The Reddit that came out of that isn't used > and Stack Exchange isn't there yet from underuse. It IS a numbers game, in > that sense. > > Slightly askance to you query, underlying all this is, perhaps, another > issue. BROADER MARKETING / EXPOSURE / GETTING IT KNOWN. > > *We benefit from a great product that is hardly known. *I think that is > True, with a capital "T". > > Best wishes > Josiah > -- 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/5cc956d6-c51f-4c63-b8eb-b8240fe3cd5e%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
