[tw5] Re: TW 5.2.0 + CouchDB ?

2021-11-26 Thread Jeremy Ruston
CouchDB was already established when I started TiddlyWiki 5 in 2011, and I'd been following it with interest. Not only did it have solid synchronisation functionality, at the time it had intriguing features for hosting JavaScript applications, long before Node.js. I think there were a few

[tw5] Re: TW 5.2.0 + CouchDB ?

2021-11-25 Thread 'Mark S.' via TiddlyWiki
That was it for me too. In the space of a month, it went from this friendly, reasonably understandable thing, to this borg-like mega-corporation thing. HAL* doesn't really cater to "little people" -- that's not their mission statement. * Advance each letter one step On Thursday, November

[tw5] Re: TW 5.2.0 + CouchDB ?

2021-11-25 Thread Stephen Wilson
@Jan I was quite keen on noteself, had it set up and everything but then after the takeover, Couch DB moved past my tolerance for banging my head against software and it killed it for me. I suspect that was true for others. On Monday, 22 November 2021 at 20:06:16 UTC cj.v...@gmail.com wrote:

[tw5] Re: TW 5.2.0 + CouchDB ?

2021-11-22 Thread Charlie Veniot
That would be very cool. *Comments* Other than technical coolness, what would be the advantage of it? From just a user perspective (i.e. forget technical stuff) what reason would I have to want that? You're talking technological "wowness", but bring it back to "in the trenches" "daily

[tw5] Re: TW 5.2.0 + CouchDB ?

2021-11-22 Thread Jan
Hi V, this is a very important topic... I also would like to have the browser storage plugin play a more important role, because for some first-time users it is a deception that their changes are not saved when they return - couchDB could heal this. One setback for noteself was that the

[tw5] Re: TW 5.2.0 + CouchDB ?

2021-11-22 Thread Michael McDermott
I can't speak for everyone, only myself. When I picked TiddlyWiki several years ago, I imposed the following constraints on myself (brief reason in square brackets): * Lightweight text markup that included hyperlinking [these are among the things that separate the solution from text-only] *