Thank you, Saq, this is amazing! If you feel for it: Hacker News
(https://news.ycombinator.com/) is a great place to get constructive
feedback (they have a "Show HN" prefix) - and it would be a nice place to
promote TiddlyWiki more too!
Best,
Anders
lørdag 9. januar 2021 kl. 23:07:10 UTC+1 skrev si:
> This is great Saq. I've been playing with it mostly on Tiddloid (on a
> cheap Samsung). I'm amazed by how many great improvements you have made,
> and now super-excited for the next release. Streams is looking better than
> most 'conventional' apps.
>
> I have included several quibbles below, but only because it's hopefully
> more helpful to you than just saying that everything is great. My overall
> response, however, is overwhelmingly positive.
>
> Here are my thoughts (mostly relating to the mobile UX):
>
> - Overall the mobile experience is way smoother. Drag and drop didn't
> work for me before, now it works reliably. The area to tap in order to
> drag
> and drop seems suitably large - I'm not finding that I have to re-tap to
> find the right spot.
> - It feels like I have to hold down a little longer that I would
> expect before the node becomes draggable. I know you wouldn't want it to
> happen too quickly so as not to interfere with scrolling, but to me it
> just
> feels too long. It's hard to say for sure without trying it for a longer
> period, but I think it impacts the UX enough that it would probably
> prevent
> me from bothering to use drag&drop at all on mobile.
> - It's hard to judge, but double tapping to enter edit-mode seems to
> have less of a delay than in the current stable version. It's still got a
> delay, but I guess this could have something to do with my cheap phone.
> - I have found that whenever I double tap to close edit mode on mobile
> I end up highlighting some text. In most cases this doesn't actually
> affect
> the function, but I do find it mildly stressful.
> - Double tapping to the left of the text to works well, though
> currently I don't instinctively do this. It also feels like it would be
> more natural as a single rather than a double tap.
> - Swiping to open the context menu is super-useful. Currently it seems
> that if a context menu is already open, switching to a context menu on a
> different node requires two steps: tapping to close the menu, then swiping
> to open a new one. I think it would be more natural if swiping on a
> separate node did both of these things at once.
> - I tried the swipe-to-indent setting and found that it worked well,
> and the lack of visual feedback/ability to undo doesn't strike me as a
> massive problem. However I would probably not use this feature personally
> as I feel that the context menu option is more useful.
> - The reduced indent level looks nicer in my opinion. The streams look
> more like they are part of the tiddler, if that makes any sense.
> - The new control panel is super-sexy. I could easily tell what all
> the settings did.
> - One thing that bothered me about the current release is that I would
> occasionally create new nodes from tiddlers that already had titles like
> "tiddler/timestamp" and end up with lots of tiddlers called
> "tiddler/timestamp/timestamp/timestamp" etc. With the new control panel I
> was able to change the title template to my own custom macro that ignores
> any already existing timestamps when generating new titles. I wonder if
> this should be the default behaviour? Here is the macro that I used:
> - \define new-streams-title()
> <$vars timestamp=<<now "[UTC]YYYY0MM0DD0hh0mm0ssXXX">> >
> <$list filter="[<stream-root-title>!regexp[^.*/\d{17}$]]">
> {{{ [<currentTiddler>addsuffix[/]addsuffix<timestamp>] }}}
> </$list>
> <$list filter="[<stream-root-title>regexp[^.*/\d{17}$]]">
> {{{ [<currentTiddler>splitbefore[/]addsuffix<timestamp>] }}}
> </$list>
> </$vars>
> \end
> - The last point doesn't relate directly to the new features, but I
> might as well mention it here. I frequently find myself opening a tiddler
> and seeing that I have a bunch of nodes left in edit mode, which I have to
> toggle one at a time. It would be nice I think to have a way either for
> nodes to be set to read-mode automatically (maybe triggered by opening the
> tiddler for a node, or closing the streams tiddler), or an option to just
> set all nodes to read-only in batch.
>
> Ok so now I realise that I have written a whole essay. Sorry. Thanks again
> for Streams, it's a super-plugin.
> On Friday, 8 January 2021 at 18:14:53 UTC [email protected] wrote:
>
>> This is a preview of an experimental branch of Streams intended to
>> explore optimizations and new ideas. Not all of these changes will make it
>> to the final released version, depending on user feedback.
>>
>> Specifically, I am interested in feedback from regular users of Streams
>> who can compare these new changes to the stable released version.
>> https://saqimtiaz.github.io/sq-tw/temp/streams-0.2-preview.html
>>
>> If you are new to Streams, I suggest looking at the latest stable release
>> instead:
>> https://groups.google.com/g/tiddlywiki/c/1jTwdmq8cgI
>> Performance improvements
>>
>> There are significant performance improvements. Very large streams now
>> render over 300% faster.
>>
>> This has involved drastically simplifying the HTML structure of nodes, as
>> well as optimizing the code used for drag and drop and the context menu.
>>
>> You can compare the rendering time for the tiddler "TiddlyWiki Toolmap"
>> on the old version
>> <https://saqimtiaz.github.io/sq-tw/streams-tiddlytoolmap-expanded.html>
>> versus
>> the new one
>> <https://saqimtiaz.github.io/sq-tw/streams-tiddlytoolmap2.html>.
>>
>> *Please pay attention to whether drag and drop and the context menu still
>> work as expected.*
>>
>> A lot of tweaks to the core code and custom widgets previously included
>> in Streams have been deprecated as they are now a part of
>> the TiddlyWiki core, making the plugin smaller and lighter to use despite
>> the addition of new features.
>> Context Menu
>>
>> The context menu has been extended with *indent* and *unindent* options.
>> UX tweaks
>>
>> *Drag and Drop*
>>
>> The area that can be grabbed to drag a node has been extended.
>>
>> Drag and drop now works relatively well in Chrome on Android *mobile*
>> devices.
>>
>> The modifier keys used to control the behaviour when dragging and
>> dropping a node are customizable
>>
>> *Double click*
>>
>> You can also double click inside the editor as well as in the area to
>> left of it to exit editing
>>
>> You can now double click the area left of a node as well as on the
>> content of a node to edit.
>>
>> If using the default editor, you can also turn off double click inside
>> the editor textarea
>>
>> *Swipe on touch devices*
>>
>> There is experimental support for swiping on nodes in touch devices
>>
>> Two modes are supported
>>
>> Swipe to indent / unindent
>>
>> Swipe to trigger a context menu on the node, from which you can
>> indent/unindent, open, delete etc.
>>
>> There isn't any visual feedback when swiping. Due to the lack of native
>> browser support this will not be implemented and therefore the behaviour to
>> indent/unindent for swipe is likely to be dropped as it can be difficult to
>> undo.
>>
>> *Miscellaneous*
>>
>> The max-width of a node is now customizable.
>>
>> The indent level of the stream root has been decreased.
>> Settings Control Panel
>>
>> There is a new settings control panel for Streams, available both in the
>> Control Panel as well as the plugin tiddler.
>> CodeMirror integration
>>
>> If the CodeMirror plugin is installed, there is a configuration option in
>> the Streams settings to choose the editor to use for Streams nodes.
>>
>> Testing and feedback is needed to make sure this works as expected, both
>> using codemirror as the editor and using the default editor. The areas most
>> likely to be affected are:
>>
>> - splitting a node by hitting Enter with the text cursor/caret in the
>> middle of some text,
>>
>> - hitting Enter with the cursor at the beginning of some text,
>>
>> - or hitting backspace with the cursor at the beginning of a text.
>>
>
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