Folks, As you may know I am a regular contributor to the community. I just want to let you know although I will always support the use of Google Groups, *I am now only an occasional visitor here.* Without entering into the detailed evaluations and comparisons these are *my reasons why*;
- Discourse fixed a number of problems introduced to Google Groups of late eg code highlighting. - Discourse has all the standard features of most of the advance community tools. - It can almost resemble a chat if more than one person is on line. - I do not use any email features only online. - Its easier to keep track of what I have done or when others post and reply - Its nice to use emoticon reactions rather than a whole (email) reply to indicate support, or thank someone. - *I can deal with a larger volume of activity in the same time* - Private messaging without using email is possible (off line discussions) - I can support new users to Discourse, as I certainly want us to move, so of course I support it. - Given the way users have being treated by google eg; destroyed mobile view I no longer trust Google Groups in the long term. There are too many features to name here that I appreciate in Discourse, but most are reusable skills, because they are available in many other community solutions, but not in Google Groups, which after all is a glorified mail list. I did not choose Discourse, but because it has gained some momentum and is more than adequate if not very good *"I just want to leave".* I tried to encourage a move many times, but most communities are like herding cats, but now in the case of Discourse its more like "herding sheep" and a pile of us sheeple, have *just run across the road and discovered than side is much greener* :) I understand there are community members who feel one or more of the following; - finding the transition difficult, - need solutions to help on the new platform - are not familiar with these sophisticated solutions - don't like changing something that works for them. I urge you to come over and connect with me @TW_Tones <https://talk.tiddlywiki.org/u/TW_Tones> I will do all I can to help you learn how to use discourse and transition (others will help as well). Tones -- 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 tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/2da49e63-cdf5-4fdd-852f-74f0cb78cfc9n%40googlegroups.com.
