Though I really do understand and appreciate the voices of complain, somehow they also seem in the wrong place of Eric trying to find a solution for being of continuing help, and thereby in part addressing those very issues. Don't think one person could handle all this as one person alone though. But the alternative isn't that nice either: leaving without a word, as it so often happens..
I want to say thanks for being so frank about the challenges you're facing, Eric. And I do hope this still turns someway good for you and every TiddlyWiki user. Of course, it does give some weight to the notion already repeatedly raised that TW would be a dying thing - since it actually has been on a sort of paid life-support for already that long - which now wont be available to the former extent: Really no other plugin repository in it's extent, well written documentation and unbelievable functionality added - comes even close to TiddlyTools. So I'm certainly not the minority when I say it was really your efforts that got me hooked to TW. And I'm one of the many who uses your add-ons on a regular basis, ..have been greatly helped by your responses to my specific requests. TiddlyWiki's world would be very different without, because it makes so many of TW's amazing possibilities for everyday use available ready-made to java-script illiterate users. And still will continue to do for a long time, even if a few of your plugins already have quited their job with the latest TW versions. However, beside my own precarious momentary financial situation due to a variety of reasons (which hopefully will also change again, and I'll become able to donate some) I, as yourself, don't realistically believe this could ever cover your ongoing expenses. Though TW GoogleGroup's many members have been quite busy, practically those who are active at any given time are only a handful and really seem to decline further.. Personally always felt very grateful for your upper exceptional support and responsiveness to plugin feature requests. So I tried to give back at least some by answering beginners questions as much as I could. Thought this would create some sort of equilibrium between giving and taking out of enthusiasm for the thing. Now I realize thats a bit a naive assessment of the equation due to the paycheck of UnaMesa never taken in account. Nevertheless, as you now also have to, I wont just give up behaving as this still would be an voluntary project - though it hasn't really been to some extent, as we just found out - it would be really death for me otherwise. So I'll continue to ask questions and also make TiddlyTools plugin requests with the hope that they might be voluntarily met - wont take anti-depressants if the aren't ;-) - but just try an other approach to what I want to get at, or give up in a particular direction. Just as is was till now. I feel that's still in everyone's interest. I wish you the best in every respect. Who knows what the future might bring? PS: > > > Re. TiddlyWeb - now it's REALLY hard to decipher what's going on .. It really is scary. If anything goes wrong, how can one ever provide a 'minimal' test case? I've just been in the process of trying to strip one down, and it's been weeks of many hours in my free time to slowly figure it out, and that's just to derive a stand-alone! Many of the plugins which come with it by default don't even have a description or list dependencies.. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
