I'm could be wrong, but I'm guessing that only Jeremy could apply for the FREE discourse set up.
If it's not free, it's $100/month. Yipes. But there are other discourse hosts that will set up at $10/month. Feasible. I imagine that someone is generously paying about that much for Tiddlyspot. Asking that all the old GG be imported is unreasonable. Especially since much of it is fluff, and none of it is tagged or categorized. So, consider going forward only. People would have to sign up and add their own emails, rather than a mass migration. Maybe we need one of those survey things: How many people would use Discourse if available? Personally, I think unless the alternative site is promoted at TiddlyWiki.com, it won't go anywhere. There's almost zero activity on the reddit forum, and people actually have reasons to visit reddit. If reddit were promoted as "the" place to go for answers, there might be activity. On Thursday, October 3, 2019 at 5:54:41 AM UTC-7, @TiddlyTweeter wrote: > > ILYA wrote: >> >> Maybe it is just me but I don't understand the concern with numbers. Both >> GG and discourse have email integration. Which means that following >> strategy should work. >> > > I like your enthusiasm for it! But you talk mostly about the tech involved > *not > the numbers of people.* > > So lets look at NUMBERS via some simple questions ... > > Step 1 >> - use one of the existent scripts to migrate archive from GG to discourse >> - configure [email protected] to forward all email to additional >> email ([email protected] for example) >> - bingo you would have two forums with the same content >> > > Let's assume Discourse (it looks like a very neat system!). > > Okay some techie(s) are able to export all the archives and all the email > addresses and whatnot so you have on ONGOING CLONE of GG (that would be a > maqjor acheivement!). > > But WHO will host it where? You? > > This GG was created by Mr. Ruston. So your approach needs a bit of > thinking through about in terms of people in control of it. > > Goggle Groups is free, easy setup & low maintenance. The OTHER way > requires more maintenance, more manning, and likely a special server? > > Step 2 >> - have content curators who would tag interesting solutions >> > > HOW would you get them? HOW much work would it be for them? HOW many > volunteers to do this do you think there would needs be? > > BUT *the existing GG has a relatively low number of active participants.* My > feeling is, which may be wrong, is there really is not a big enough pool. > > You probably also likely need moderators to run Discourse well? > > *But do ask and see what the response is, to see if people may be > interested help run it!* > > >> - maybe tag some of the old posts as well (use search stats to figure out >> what deserves the effort) >> >> Step 3 >> - when all are happy announce deprecation of GG >> - update links on tiddlywiki.com >> - configure auto reply on [email protected] saying that people >> should use [email protected] (keep forwarding for 1 year) >> >> Step 4 >> - after one year remove forwarding but keep auto reply >> > > *Sounds fine. So create a parrallel system and let's see what happens! :-)* > > What I DOUBT will happen is you would get unequivocal support in advance. > Not enough people for it to be really clear! > > But might be well worth trying. > > Best wishes > TT > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/d79031ee-b7bf-44be-ac61-ee8c0e3d1b50%40googlegroups.com.
