On Friday, February 7, 2020 at 11:54:19 AM UTC+1, TonyM wrote: ... > A mentor of mine many years ago said he is happy for me to bring problems > to him, but can I bring a possible solution at the same time.
As I wrote in my first post. On Saturday, February 1, 2020 at 11:46:18 AM UTC+1, PMario wrote: ... We already have the possibility to save to github. So it should be simple > to write tiddlers to https://gist.github.com/ ... I think, there are > several advantages. > > - Everything is visible > - No compressing or shortening is needed. > - Automatic versioning > - gists can be commented > > We can use the existing tiddlers.json export format, that should be easy > to import. > If someone dosn't want to send data to github, we do have a gitlab saver too. -------------------------------- There are some elements that I don't like with the proposed new behaviour. Besides the security and privacy concerns. 1. The URL even if it is visible (not shortened) is not "human-user friendly". It's very hard to review content like this. 2. Shortened URLs make it even harder to review the content. 3. Shortened links introduce 1 more dependency into a system that is already weak (if not broken). See link-rot [1] 4. Shortened links introduce 1 more party that actively collects your data. see Terms of service bitly [2] 5. It isn't reliable. The URL size of different browser isn't the same. 6. Tiddlers are imported, without a "user review state", that the existing import mechanism provides. 7. I know that most users "just click" the import button without reviewing. That's OK, because it's the users choice. But skipping the process by design, isn't best practice, because the user has _no choice_ There are probably more, but I don't want to spend more time, with it atm. -mario [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_rot [2] https://bitly.com/pages/terms-of-service -- 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/3e715a88-d5c5-499e-8b0f-9d1fd1993f5e%40googlegroups.com.
