This has been an ongoing topic forever! Just my 2 cents but we appear to be having a pretty good "discourse" in here on this subject right now. The accumulated knowledge and history of TW is right here in one place (other than GIT of course) easily searchable and while I am sure there maybe better alternatives out there, I personally just do not see the benefit in moving the entire community to a new platform even if it were possible to move the information stored here with it (possibly losing a few users in the process) not to mention the effort it would take to manage some of these other alternatives where this is set and forget basically no patching required, no server costs or server maintenance, and all eyes are on as far as spam monitoring etc? It maybe possible or is being done, but it would be good to know all the information contained in this is archived and could be moved to another platform if needed but until needed why would we want to move to a different platform when this has worked fine for I have no idea how many years but plenty I am sure. GG isn't perfect no doubt, "eat your own dog food" I have always been a big believer in but more so "if it ain't broke don't fix it". Again just my brain damaged humble opinion and admittedly ill informed to what alternatives are available but are they as time tested and reliable? (not that google isn't capable of just kill it off at any time like they did G+ or what ever it was called but this has been around almost as long as Gmail itself I think? Doubt its going anywhere?
On Sunday, May 30, 2021 at 4:03:20 PM UTC-5 Mark S. wrote: > On Sunday, May 30, 2021 at 11:56:51 AM UTC-7 Mat wrote: > >> >> I don't know the details but I feel there is a general risk in being tied >> up in someone elses solution. Critical word is "tied up". Who owns the >> data? Even if we own the data, can it be exported? For free? Forever? Etc. >> > > I'm just saying that if we changed up, rather than going for these > semi-broken ad-hoc solutions that were never meant to be a forum (which, as > I understand it, includes discord), why not use a resource that was > designed as a forum? > > With groups.io you can export data, and based on past experience it will > likely warn anyone before they change policies. The "pro" version is > $200/year, which is still a lot less than $1200. I'm running a nearly 2000 > member forum there (it used to be 2000+, but I'm not a great motivator ;-) > ) In any event, our data is tied up with GG, so no real change 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/c7e8171c-2840-441f-9f3d-b32185868061n%40googlegroups.com.
