Jed, Since you are responsible for bob and its documentation and support you take what every approach you want. However with all due respect your concern about causing a flood of requests may be another issue. Its is critical you provide information that others do not have access to, information that is needed to use something you created can only come from you, otherwise we remain in the dark. People must ask you if the information is not there. I also note that when you know something deeply, I think you forget others do not know it as well, this happens to me too when writing documentation for end users.
Sure my case of multiple IP addresses may be an edge case, which you feel you do not need to document, however not adding a simple line on this subject such as "0.0.0.0 or a specific IP address on the Current host. Will do more than one thing. It would have guided me in my edge case, some people may realise they need to see if they have more than one IP address and may trigger others to explore IP assignments when debugging there own issues, for example they already have another server on the localhost, that is, this information supports a lot more than one edge case. Perhaps you could note what values are auto populated on the Manual setting page, they are hardly manual if they are automatic. I have great respect for what you have built with Bob and it certainly deserves more than the attention and support that it already gets. I have volunteered to assist in writing and developing documentation in the past, but found I could not proceed because despite attempts to do so I could not get enough understanding, to know bob well enough to be able to write effective notes on Bob. Because I had some recurring problems I could not fix, I had to abandon it for my production wikis. I am returning to it now with a number of your improvements and bug fixes in recent releases. I am only trying to be honest from my perspective, because I have no other perspective to share. I want to help but I can't because I find it hard to help myself, despite my fairly extensive experience with TiddlyWiki. To be honest I think some of these barriers are a result of your own annoyance, feelings, approach and your deep technical knowledge which only you can address. Please forgive me for being personal - and take my comments with a "grain of salt" but I feel I need to express them "lest they never be spoken". Love your work Tony On Saturday, October 12, 2019 at 10:33:06 PM UTC+11, Jed Carty wrote: > > Tony, > > In my experience giving information like that without providing a mostly > automated way to do it just leads to problems. Considering the amount of > background knowledge and assistance that is required, even for someone as > knowledgeable as you, to properly explain the host setting of a server and > its purpose means that it would only lead to people using it incorrectly > and flooding me with requests for help. > > It is a setting where if you know enough to be able to configure it > without aid then you know what it is and how to use it. > -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/a43dfa9f-ff51-4ba4-89c9-a54ee7d4073b%40googlegroups.com.
