Josiah,
I had noticed Erwan's Community Search. > <http://erwanm.github.io/tw-community-search/> But I never used it much > because (1) its very incomplete, (2) way behind now, (3) has lots of links > that go nowhere (deceased links, old). > > What I did NOT know till I read your post was that folk with online stuff > need to do a couple of things to get it to track their work. *In other > words it is tardy simply because so few people are signed onto it*. > > My 1st question is basic: DO PEOPLE WHO ARE DEVELOPING STUFF EVEN KNOW > THIS MECHANISM EXISTS? > That is why the Community Search is not enough per se. It aims to help people find stuff but if people don't even find the Community Search... no cigar. This is why I keep coming back to TWederation. That is a system that builds on personal incentives and social interaction. It is a LOT easier to add notes if I do it for my own sake than it is to actively share them. For example, just the fact that you have plugins X, Y and Z installed are of potential value, if others knew. You have those plugins because of personal incentives. If you also happen to, say, blog for others to read, I think this is also more likely if you do it in your own TW than e.g here on the boards where you are not in control of your text. You ask "Do developers know about the Community Search?". Not unless anybody told them. And there is not enough personal incentive to do so, or even to keep the Community Search in mind. (for example, you knew about it but still don't talk about it... not out of evilness but I'm guessing your're of course not thinking of it much.) Besides, few people have as much time as you and I to write on boards like this. Definitely a luxury. Other than the boards, I'd say people only "read" tiddlywiki.com. But the Community Search is presented on tiddlywiki.com just like any other community site/plugin/whatever. It is not "promoted" or referred to in any other tiddler that I know of. So, my guess is newcomers simply don't get to know about it. Jeremy is the gatekeeper to tiddlywiki .com and he is doing a fantastic job, but he is only one man and IMO simply adding a tiddler for each reported site is not enough. There is no categorization or context to find the info in. And the links are not updated. Besides, his super skills are better used on advanced stuff. ...so again, TWedreation, driven by "the masses" is my best shot for an answer to this information-spreading problem. My 2nd question is: Why are we not doing more to ACTIVELY PROMOTE such > tracking of developments in TW Erwan's thing already makes possible? > I try to bring it up on the discussion forum every now and then (like now). But, there is also some mental resistance to do this because the Community Search is not designed the way I would personally have preferred it. The biggest problem is that is appears outdated and the HUGE thing that it actually updates EVERY day is too subtle. But, yeah, you knew about it. You're one of the more active fellas here. And still you're not actively promoting it. Why? My 3rd question is: Why are *you* not using it :-) > As noted, I typically create a new site (a tiddlyspot) for each new creation. And one has to report every site to the Community Search OR report one "main site" into which one writes the other urls. I do have my "blog" TWaddle reported... but TWaddle became passive a year or two ago (because there was no good mechanism to save only public/ready posts. I recently solved this and I'm fiddling aournd with a revamp for TWaddle.) so reporting each new thingy I make is... ufff... TWederation is also the only thing I can think of where each person himself decides how the data is to be presented, since it is in their own TWs. "I want to prioritize all fetched posts from Josiah", "I want to delete all posts not starred", etc. "I want an alert every time I fetch tiddlers containing the word plugin". Can't do that here or on tiddlywiki.com. <:-) -- 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/899b012b-0402-4007-a561-ee2ba98378a1%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
