FNF, I have no special knowledge but I understand the concern. It is important that needy people not get lost and the whole community experience doesn't get degraded as a result. However l feel the dynamics will automatically prevent that. A once a week hi powered session Is un-likely to replace the current daily back and forth on most issues. it is not likely that adding a new direct channel will degrade things overall.
Your point is valuable that we should monitor things. However done right the hangout should synergistically enhance the whole community. The groups should feed on each other and solve different problems. The curent list will continue to handle routine issues with Eric chiming in when it gets beyond the regular helpers knowledge or if he feels that the addressed problem is an excellent to clarify something of general interest. Most of us will stick here because our problems are routine and will continue to be handled in almost the same way. The difference is that Eric & co are offering a bigger hammer to address stubborn and intractable issues.It is also a place to present things in a more traditional subject based classroom experience. Because key acolytes are bound to hang there they will become even more in tune when they comeback to handle my plebeian questions. The best part is that the Hangout sessions will (hopefully) be captured by google and be a source of master class discussions you can check out later. I expect they will become a routine resource.with people creating indexes to the best ones. That's often how hangouts evolve. On Saturday, July 13, 2013 7:15:56 AM UTC-4, FND wrote: > > Hi all, > > While Eric's offer is admirable, I'm somewhat concerned about unintended > side-effects: Such direct communication channels leave casual observers > without easily accessible artifacts. Consider how many TiddlyWiki users > have learned a ton of stuff simply by reading people discussing their > issues on the mailing list (usually with Eric responding with copious > details). > > I'm not arguing against doing this, just please be wary of the > consequences. > > Thanks. > > > -- F. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWikiDev" 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 http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywikidev. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
