Thank you to everyone who has helped with the StackExchange process. It's great that our voice is loud enough to meet their criteria, and it will be interesting to see how things go.
It's pretty clear that Stack Exchange cannot serve as our primary community platform: when it started (in the shape of Stack Overflow), one of their principles was to be an information-dense, strict Q&A site. They explicitly disallowed social chat, asides, digressions; all the ephemera that makes the community here so distinctive. I don't know if those principles are still held so strictly, but it certainly remains a Q&A site, and that is what it is good at. So, if it has a role for us, from the community perspective, it is to supplement Google Groups by helping us create and curate a body of useful Q&A exchanges. If it worked, it would address one of the frequently quoted criticisms of the Google Group: that it is hard to retrieve answers given to questions in the past. Best wishes Jeremy -- Jeremy Ruston [email protected] http://jermolene.com > On 7 Jun 2017, at 21:37, @TiddlyTweeter <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ciao Mat > > The complexity of moving a main discussion group is difficult. The > complexity of moving a SMALL main discussion group is, oddly, even greater. > > This is because the spawned group has real issues reaching the critical > momentum needed to prove its better than the former. > > If anyone here thinks its possible to properly maintain both a GG and a > StackExchange simultaneously long term they are mistaken. Unless they think > of SE as a specialist's small footnote. > > IMO, the move towards StackExchange, once it is really clear it is better, & > does what we need well, then GGs should die. We simply do NOT yet have enough > active users to properly sustain two active groups well. It needs to be a > collective pro-active sentiment by current GG users to stop here, waiting > around for Darwin to sort it out won't work. > > The WHOLE point of the SE initiative was to better integrate what we are > doing, increase impact, improve documentation & provide things GG cannot. > > Lets see it working properly working first, the decide. > > At the moment its in some SE limbo state. Oddly you guys don't seem to find > that odd. (I do find it troubling that "Mother" SE is the one dealing all the > cards). > > Best wishes > 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]. > 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/cc2f7fba-1135-457a-a277-c6a1b39da9f0%40googlegroups.com. > 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/A34327A4-B608-4587-868C-D8706F08C21C%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
