Mr Ruston a fiddly point about why is your lead-in headed....
Re: [tw] To Jeremy Rushton - TW STAND-ALONE is MY thing ... When my post was titled ... To Jeremy Ruston - TW STAND-ALONE is MY thing ... Is there an "H" macro running here? :-) Josiah On Wednesday, 27 April 2016 18:40:35 UTC+2, Jeremy Ruston wrote: > > Josiah is making a subtle, and useful, point in relation to some of the > remarks I’ve made in the past. > > Those remarks were about the way that TiddlyWiki has a central duality: it > exists both in its standalone HTML file form, and as a much more > traditional Node.js server application. Both aspects of TiddlyWiki are > important; in particular, the Node.js configuration is used to build the > standalone configuration in the first place. > > The concerns that I have expressed are about the tension between > developing and promoting the standalone features that make TiddlyWiki > unique versus the server-based features that (could) make TiddlyWiki much > more familiar to a general audience. > > I interpreted Josiah’s remarks as being a vote of support for continuing > to emphasise the standalone configuration, and thus the unique use cases > that can only be tackled by TiddlyWiki. He’s echoing a thought we’ve > discussed before: that most of the users of TiddlyWiki are invisible, > because it is used privately, and so posting here makes good sense. > > Josiah’s suggesting of making it easier to post to social networks is one > of the core ideas explored by the IndieWebCamp community: > > https://indiewebcamp.com > > I’d agree that such functionality would be useful in TW. I frequently > draft GitHub issues in TiddlyWiki (as a Markdown tiddler) and then manually > copy and paste it into GitHub. Direct posting via the API would be pretty > useful sometimes. > > In closing, my personal opinion remains that it is the standalone > configuration that makes TiddlyWiki special, and that the Node.js > configuration exists to serve that configuration. I do want to improve the > multi-user experience, but even there I want to retain the value of the > standalone configuration, by making it easy to work on updates offline and > collaboratively merge them later. > > Best wishes > > Jeremy > > > On 26 Apr 2016, at 13:30, [email protected] <javascript:> wrote: > > Ciao Jeremy > > Both here and on the Dev channel I have seen you write about your > concerns, in last few days, about taking TW too far towards server > dependent systems. > > I TOTALLY AGREE. > > I am one of the silent users of TW. I developed, for my own use, many > customized versions. I never publish them. I just use them locally. > > The idea TW step more towards on-line server mediated systems would erase > its specialness, IMO. > > The one area where TW might be improved, for me, is being able to POST to > social networks more easily. BUT interactive stuff that REQUIRES DEPENDENT > linkage to function is not a good idea to have at the front. > > Its not that I, in anyway, think that "scaling up for server services" is > bad per se. However, the MINIMALIST MODEL of the ONE-PAGE is, undoubtedly, > its brilliance. > > Many thanks for inventing this thing, > Josiah > > > -- > 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] <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <javascript:>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/f6b3756c-6a72-410f-bd1a-2376ed927860%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/f6b3756c-6a72-410f-bd1a-2376ed927860%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- 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 post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/387a544a-eed4-49b1-81a2-5a953ac80231%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
