Ciao Jeremy

You are right. Partly my laziness at fault :-(.

Josiah



On Tuesday, 4 February 2020 15:40:58 UTC+1, Jeremy Ruston wrote:
>
> Hi Josiah
>
> Just a side comment ...
>
> Sharing anything on GG long term that is sustainable requires pinning or 
> other flagging. Otherwise the share just enters "flow" and gets swamped.
>
>
> Let’s not sidetrack another thread with this same discussion. The 
> disadvantages of mailing lists are well understood, and not specific to 
> this community or TiddlyWiki, and not particularly relevant to this 
> discussion.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Jeremy.
>
>
> FYI, I'm very busy elsewhere at moment and not been able to read all I 
> would like to keep up.
>
> What I notice on a brief return is a vast flood of Good Stuff, none of 
> which is organised enough for me to know what is what later.
>
> Just saying--this is a continuing frustration.
>
> I do NOT think we have solved our informational issues here.
>
> 2 cents in passing
> Josiah
>
>
>
> On Saturday, 1 February 2020 11:21:00 UTC+1, Jeremy Ruston wrote:
>>
>> There’s an interesting discussion about simplifying sharing 
>> demos/snippets on Google Groups over on a thread of Tony’s:
>>
>>
>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/42db53e3-e372-4005-8ea1-32f409d6963d%40googlegroups.com
>>  
>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/[email protected]>
>>
>> Just brainstorming, but I should it should be possible to build something 
>> simple that might do the job.
>>
>> Firstly, we’d need to create a version of empty.html that loads all its 
>> tiddlers as a block of JSON from the location hash part of the URL. That 
>> would allow people to post links that populated the empty wiki with any 
>> number of tiddlers. Historically, some browsers limited URLs to 2048 
>> characters, but it seems that most browsers will support anything up to 
>> 64KB.
>>
>> For example:
>>
>> https://tiddlywiki.com/share.html#[{"text": "This is the text of a 
>> tiddler","title": "My Title","tags": "Definitions”}]
>>
>> So that one could include plugins and other settings that would require a 
>> restart if imported normally, we’d have to use a raw markup snippet to read 
>> the tiddlers from the location hash before TW starts up.
>>
>> Secondly, we’d need a means to create those links. The same edition when 
>> started without any tiddlers could prompt the user to import tiddlers, and 
>> present a “share” button that creates the URL.
>>
>> To make the resulting long URLs convenient, it would be worth 
>> investigating the APIs of services like bitly.com so that we 
>> can automatically create a shortened version of the URL.
>>
>> Best wishes
>>
>> Jeremy.
>>
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