I've been looking for a visual metaphor that would show why Mat, an experienced TiddlyWiki user and developer, considers TiddlyWiki extremely difficult to describe. All attempts tend to fail at capturing what it is.
Add to that that the process of getting started is far too messy, with too many convoluted options, for trial software. So (putting it over-extremely) you trying "god knows what" via "god knows how". "Malkovich, Malkovich" neatly expresses "first-contact (options) overload": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIpev8JXJHQ. This explains itself better than words. Currently we have multiple variations of TiddlyWiki. That is good. But up on the STORE-FRONT (tiddlywiki.com) its too much IMO ... its creating a "Malkovich Effect". Far better to have ONE universal method to start with to test it out (maybe in an *online sandbox*?). THEN options (maybe by probing the visitor's browser to guess what system they visiting from and *advise to suit*?) I'm interested in feedback on these thoughts. This is only one part of the "Getting TW Better Known" thing. And maybe I'm wrong. But I think we'll do everyone a favour thinking more explicitly about how to get TiddlyWiki better known in the easiest, graspable, "I-do-want-to-try-it", way. And this issue should not be all on Jeremy Ruston's shoulders. 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/a5c778a8-4b79-4906-bf0b-a2d603e4d1a6%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
