Hello all, For the past week I've been brainstorming a way to truly transform the TiddlyWiki community into a TiddlyWiki Social Platform that can really supercharge TiddlyWiki's visibility and adoption, as well as help kickstart a new way of sharing and following productive and creative members of the community.
*Problem* Currently, the means of distributing, showcasing and managing TiddlyWiki projects are scattered throughout the web (tiddlyspot, github, gitlab) and divorced from the means of providing feedback, discussion (this forum). While Github has an all-in-one offer of managing a community of contributors and users in a single repository (issues, repo wiki), many of TW's users are end-users and/or end-user programmers who might not prefer to open a github account, or would prefer a simpler and more streamlined way of making an deploying a TW project as in tiddlyspot as well as obtaining feedback and discuss issues (project specific forum). *Solution* I've created a simple wireframe to illustrate the solution: a complete social network framework for tiddlywiki that improves upon the tiddlyspot model. It has 3 main features: 1. An "Explore page" or gallery page that is automatically updated to show off TiddlyWiki projects hosted by users, organised by popularity or genre or use. This page could act as a "social feed" for TiddlyWiki projects 2. Clicking on a project in the "explore page" takes you to the TW page that hosts a plugin, blog or what not that you find interesting. I could implement a means for you to "fork" a project directly into your private account (like github, but streamline for TW). 3. A "Profile" page can be automatically created for you when you publish a TW project to the network, to talk about yourself and to collate all your TW projects into a single portfolio page. I could add a means for you to customise this page. I think this is a great way of building a name on your TW projects. 4. Killer opportunity: You could also "subscribe" to profiles or specific TW projects to receive push notifications whenever say "Abraham" publishes a new project or updates a plugin page. The main potential benefit gained here is that users who are unfamiliar with platforms like Github will now have an easier to grok alternative to publish and manage wikis online and build a name for themselves using TiddlyWiki. I had originally envisioned this as an internal tool for Maarfapad. The backend will allow me to quickly build all this over the coming weeks. This is an ambitious project to say the least. I want to know if this forum believes it is worth building this as an open tool for everyone to use? Do you find it useful? Please let me know. Attached below is an ascii wireframe summarising the proposed solution. This was all inspired by another thread about TW as a platform. -- 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/c03be411-72e8-4b9d-a6eb-5e0ea25e2602%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
