Going back to some different ideas of using TW as the new “forum,” I also think this would be the best idea. Both TW’s “hackability” and the large dev user-base would allow customization further than any other site such as discourse can offer, since we could build a solution and tailor it to our every need. Someone (too lazy to find the name, lol) had mentioned using a kind or “crowdsourcing” solution to manually add everything from the GG to TW. Expanding upon this even further, I have thought of a simple JS script I could write to export all the GG data by URL to a JSON format. From there, the script could easily tweak the data to allow it to be imported into TW. For any of you interested, just let me know, and I can start a shared GitHub repo with a bare-bones implementation of this code I will write, and allow any of you more tech-savvy readers to use it and apply it.
( FYI, the script would have to export maybe 100 GG at once, instead of running through each of the tens of thousands of q and a on here. Each run of the program could then append the new results to the existing file.) On Wed, Jun 2, 2021 at 9:28 AM Doug Holton <[email protected]> wrote: > Just FYI, you can import all previous posts from this google group into a > discourse site, and it even preserves the authors with staged user accounts: > > https://meta.discourse.org/t/importing-mailing-lists-mbox-listserv-google-groups-emails/79773 > > One new deal breaker for me with google groups is that now I can't reply > from the browser on my phone. This is some new change that happened in > recent months I guess. Yes, I can subscribe to emails and reply that way, > but my gmail is already clogged enough as it is and this list is very high > traffic. For forums like this I prefer to read and interact with it on the > web, or else use discord/slack. > But for those who do prefer to interact mainly via email, reply-by-email > is enabled by default in discourse hosting. > I think the default behavior is that discourse will occasionally email you > about topics you've missed since your last visit to the site, which I like > (but you can turn that off, too). There is a discourse app, too, where I > can see and interact with all the discourse sites I'm a member of. > > For finding things, in addition to the regular search which seems better > than on google groups, there is a 'docs' feature, or of course that's where > one could link to an official tiddlywiki-based knowledge base that is > manually curated: > https://www.discourse.org/plugins/docs.html > > Discourse's managed hosting service offers an 85% discount for > educational/non-profits, so perhaps it would only cost $15/month, or else > $45/month if you want more features like docs and to have them to migrate > the google group for you. I'd be happy to donate to help cover those > costs, as I'm sure would many others here. > https://www.discourse.org/pricing > > Another transition strategy with less risk/friction would be to do like > you did with the tiddlywiki dev list. Keep and preserve the google group, > but open up a new discourse site. If or when the discourse site takes off, > start directing people there and gradually fade out the google group, > optionally importing historical posts at some point in the future. > > > On Wednesday, June 2, 2021 at 8:29:02 AM UTC-4 [email protected] wrote: > >> > EEK. I have to think about that! >> > >> > VERY surprised/upset you wrote that! >> > >> > Confrontational? I have NO intent that way whatsoever. >> >> My post was in response to Tone's query about exporting from the Google >> Group. Your reply was phrased as if I had proposed the mbox route as a >> response to your original post, as a way for Mr/s Normal to find posts in >> the group, and that you disagreed with me. >> >> > Merely, in the context of the OP, we do need SOLUTIONS in place, >> > Not promissory notes. >> > >> > I'm NOT sure it can be addressed in GG directly. >> > But there IS an issue in that you CANNOT currently, easily, find what >> you need. >> > >> > That question remains real >> >> And I’ve now given you my considered answer a couple of times: if Google >> isn’t sufficient for finding stuff, the only remaining answer is manual >> indexing/curation. >> >> Look around you at what other communities do. Sadly, there are no magic, >> secret tools out there. >> >> Best wishes >> >> Jeremy. > > -- > 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/bbc130d2-d45d-4cee-83bc-bfd83e0cfa8bn%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/bbc130d2-d45d-4cee-83bc-bfd83e0cfa8bn%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/CALXL%2BrMwxCkUNkEmS7bSJkqX1LJB2kg%3DQYXD1PqH2fHc4Qq7aw%40mail.gmail.com.
