People, including me, sometimes propose things that would require modifications to the TW core. A common reply is a recommendation to instead create a plugin or a macro. My post here is not to question this stance; as frustrating as that reply can be, it is fully understandable and TW could not be a…

I feel this thread so hard, lol. My JsonMangler plugin is stuck back in 5.1.23 (? I’d have to check), and while it didn’t get very widely adopted, those who have used it have felt the pain of it not being compatible with the current 5.2.* releases. This is because I chose to literally patch function…

Yes. With so many projects, each with distinct customizations, and widely varying degrees of urgency for keeping up with upgrades to core, I often struggle to track what’s where and why. One small point to add is that there’s an analogous challenge with edits to plugins. For example, I always hack …

It will be interesting have a tool for custom solutions but I see one small and one big doubts/problems. The first is having a source tiddlywiki for create the bundles. The second is how avoid problems when several tiddlers do changes in the same core tiddler or other customizations that “overwrit…

[image] pmario: The problem with the core UI at the moment is, that the dropdown can get a bit messy if you have many configurations. … So there is some room for improvements in the core UI too. I feel we need some extencions to help us all handle selection in the face of larger lists. Tiddly…

[image] TW_Tones: I feel we need some extencions to help us all handle selection in the face of larger lists. Tiddlywiki.com demonstrates grouping well but we need to support interactive filtering. https://tiddlytools.com/edit-list.html The <<edit-list>> macro combines features of an <$edit-…

Ciao @twMat , my 2 cents … After thought your post motivated me to look at what I’m doing in maintaining my TW. I realised it was sloppy! My point? I think your post is very rich. To me it is pointing in two (useful) directions … Tools to ease handling customisation Getting your brain & ass …

Ciao @twMat My swan song to this thread. Thinking about it over a few days I kinda thought, well @twMat is right, TW is amazingly configurable! But with that comes complexity of use! What is the primary solution to managing with that complexity? Just answering for myself to myself: Get Your Ass…

(if it says there is a deleted post by me on this thread, it’s because i accidentally hit reply on an unfinished version of this post) I’m not exactly sure how feasible this is, and this is only a possible solution to a small part of this problem, and i’m not entirely sure if there are any problems…

As initiators, maintainers and users of FLOSS digital commons come and go, I wonder about the sustainability of such commons. It’s a multifaceted problem regarding governance, learnability, legacy, economy and that would be my main concern on custom solutions. It is not so much regarding the core an…

Perhaps there could be a mechanism for someone closing a GitHub project to hand it to the commons or to at least get a “clone a branch”. This would allow the development to continut in the commons. If licencing permits this can be done as needed.

The problem with "custom solutions"

arunnbabu81 July 19, 2023, 6:24pm 34

@Damnit take a look at this post