It seems important to keep focussed on the “what” and not get prematurely distracted by the “how”, but I had a guilty thought about implementation details.
It is that we could keep tiddlywiki.com <http://tiddlywiki.com/> being a full TiddlyWiki but cunningly disguise it, essentially by displaying the contents of a HelloThere tiddler full screen. The motivation is that keeping it as a TiddlyWiki would enable us to retain our existing interactive search. We could include a way to switch to the standard theme, and perhaps keep that setting in local storage so that regular visitors can choose to skip the landing page. (I’m thinking of a combination of the single tiddler mode discussed in https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/pull/3412 <https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/pull/3412> and a new mechanism for switching the between different page templates). So the question here, perhaps, is to confirm that the concern with the site being a TiddlyWiki is that the visual presentation is overly complex for casual visitors? And not, for instance, the size of the page? There’s no question we could clone a classic landing page like the examples Anne-Laure quoted as an alternate page template (the Notion home page seems particularly relevant). Best wishes Jeremy. > On 20 Apr 2020, at 13:58, Anne-Laure Le Cunff <[email protected]> wrote: > > @Jeremy - I'd be happy to help. Shouldn't take too much work to use a > template to create a static html/css page but would be great to have > everyone's input. > > @Yoni - Welcome to TW! Also want to clarify that I agree docs should stay on > TiddlyWiki itself, just that they should not be the first thing you see when > you go to Tiddlywiki.com <http://tiddlywiki.com/> :) > > > On Monday, April 20, 2020 at 1:52:59 PM UTC+1, Yoni Balkind wrote: > I'm a new user (thanks to Anne-Laure's promotion of TW) and I have to say I'm > really struggling to get going.. > > But I'm sympathetic to the challenge of creating good help guides for an open > source project. Perhaps I will volunteer to help a bit when I'm better at > using TiddlyWinks. > > Some of the quick wins that I think would help: > > - consider keeping a curated list of unofficial tutorials. You can store this > on a tiddler on tiddlywiki.com <http://tiddlywiki.com/> and it should link to > youtube videos and blog posts that your community has created. Eg > Anne-Laure's recent post on on her blog. > > - consider separating your how-to documentation from other types of > documentation. This concept is really nicely explained here > https://documentation.divio.com/introduction/ > <https://documentation.divio.com/introduction/>. As a new user I just want to > see how-to's. > > - consider migrating away from google groups in my opinion. Perhaps use > reddit or slack as the official discussion channel. Just a personal view but > Google Groups has an outdated feel > > You are doing lots right though. I personally think you are right to host > docs on TiddlyWiki itself. Its good that you are active on Twitter and that > you engage with the community there. > > -- > 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] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/3aa875ab-1a56-40ae-b9b5-d7b3aae24622%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/3aa875ab-1a56-40ae-b9b5-d7b3aae24622%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- 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/B5864D70-B307-4D07-850C-D88DFD87982B%40gmail.com.
