I'll be there soon I hope. If you're posting updates at one of TW's social media accounts more frequently than here, just just put a note of it up in the groups header notes. People not wanting to use Discourse may be monitoring TW social instead.
On Monday, January 31, 2022 at 12:13:27 PM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote: > We started the new Discourse-based discussion forum at > https://talk.tiddlywiki.org/ in the middle of August. > > We labelled as an experiment for several reasons. > > First, it was new territory for the project to be hosting its own > infrastructure, and we would need arrangements to ensure a reliable service > with regular backups etc. > > Secondly, while there were lots of complaints about Google Groups, we were > all accustomed to it, and any switch would be disruptive and risked > alienating or losing users. > > As it's turned out, the reaction to the experiment has been somewhat > polarised. While many users are enthusiastically embracing > talk.tiddlywiki.org there is a significant group that have given clear > feedback that they prefer the old Google Group system. > > So, it seems to me that the best way to proceed is to continue to operate > both forums. The Google Group is of course operationally free of charge for > us, and only requires very light intervention from administrators. > > The tricky question is which forum should be the official forum for > announcements etc. I propose to fudge that for the moment, and just > continue to post announcements to both forums. It may not be sustainable to > do that forever, but it seems reasonable for us to move cautiously and > gather feedback when we can. > > I have made two small changes to mark this transition: > > 1. Updated https://tiddlywiki.com/#Forums to link to talk.tiddlywiki.org > 2. Updated the welcome text for this group to include a note that "the > official community forum is now talk.tiddlywiki.org – please consider > posting there to reach a more active audience." > > I'd like to thank Boris Mann who set up the Discourse instance for us, and > the administrator team. > > The new forum costs a small amount of money every month to keep it > running. Our goal is to cover those costs via contributions to the Open > Collective platform. It’s working well so far: > > https://opencollective.com/tiddlywikidotorg > > 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/c70b89e9-95dc-4beb-93cc-818c9de79086n%40googlegroups.com.
