On Oct 4, 4:33 am, "John Beckett" <[email protected]> wrote: > Oivvio Polite wrote: > > Just out of curiosity, how was the decision made that the vim > > wiki should be hosted at wikia? Wouldn't be natural for a > > project of this size to have a wiki completely under its own > > control? > > Some history of the wiki is available > here:http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Vim_Tips_Wiki:About > > While the Vim Tips wiki should be hosted on a system completely > under our control, it was decided at the time (early 2007) that > relying on a private system operated by a Vim enthusiast may > lead to long term problems if that enthusiast were hit by the > proverbial bus. Indeed, the whole Vim mailing list ground to a > halt for several weeks in 2007 when the hosting server suddenly > became unavailable (that's why we are now on Google Groups). > > I have recently received a good offer of free hosting, but now > we have the additional problem that forking would cause, in > addition to any concerns regarding buses. >
I personally like the fact that we don't need to worry about the heavy spam filtering, server security, server maintenance, version upgrades, etc. I like having a team of (presumably paid?) support people that can come to our aid when needed. The changes that are coming are, in my opinion, mildly annoying but not a big deal. I was far more upset by the ads that popped up and floated across my screen a few times, and those were gone within a week. I'm willing to put up with a few minor annoyances for the stability, availability, speed, and relative ease of working with the wiki. I'm not picky, and I have no deep-rooted loyalty to Wikia, but in my opinion they are still doing a pretty good job and provide us a valuable resource. -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
