Hi, I wanted to comment on the recent thread about the Vim wiki front page and its usefulness. I was disappointed to see the old Vim Tips site go away, but glad to see them carried on here. However so far the wiki has failed to meet my needs. I think it's turned into a good reference, but it's not good at casually improving your Vim skills. What I enjoyed most with the old site was that you didn't have to browse it. New suggestions just came in, often a few a day, and certain ones would catch your eye and you could explore them. The difference may be slight, but the effect of seeing (unfiltered and uncategorized) what other people found important is quite different from just browsing around a list of categories to find interesting stuff. One requires active work, the other is passive. Plus once things get categorized I may ignore them, not realizing they contain a hidden gem.
The other feature that is missing is the ability to get recent tips "sent" to you in an RSS feed. I haven't figured out this wiki's RSS capabilities, but it seems that none of them present you with a nice clean view of new or recently edited tips in full or that match certain keywords. The recently added RSS feed would need to ignore slightly changes and only contain ones that have real new content. I learned quite a lot over the last couple of years about Vim by just casually watching the tips go by and I think some of the suggestions about changing the home page are other features of the wiki are probably based on a similiar experience to mine. It also needs to be extremely easy to add a new tip. I only added a few over the years and commented on several I think, but creating a whole page the wiki for a tip or editing someone else's work may frighten off some people and keep them from commenting on it at all. Thanks, Don
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