Tiddlyhost is five years old!

#1

I realized today is the 5 year anniversary of Tiddlyhost.

It wasn’t announced publicly until a few days later, but I can see the very first users and sites all have created timestamps of Feb 12, 2021.

To reminisce a little, I think this commit is the moment when there was a real working production Tiddlyhost server for the very first time.

If you’ve ever been a user of Tiddlyhost, a suggester of features, a reporter of problems, or if you’ve ever made a donation, become a subscriber, been an early adopter, or shared some kindness and encouragement, thanks very much! :heart:

As Michael Stipe once sang, where does time go? :grin:

-Simon

Ps, if you have any suggestions for how to commemorate or celebrate this occasion, please share!

Pps, I am currently working on BYO domain support, which I’m hoping to roll out some time before the 6th anniversary of Tiddlyhost. :sweat_smile:

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#2

Maybe something like a tiddlywiki showing the history of tiddlyhost and tiddlyspots development, maybe some highlights for you?

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#3

It’s worth celebrating the 5 year anniversary of Tiddlyhost as a valuable resource to host TiddlyWiki5 and TiddlyWiki classic.

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#4

:birthday: Congratulations! :balloon:

I’m very excited by that! Do you expect it to be able to work with subdomains?

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#5

Congratulations @simon I am a subscriber and really value tiddlyhost, I would encourage everyone to subscribe so you are at a minimum compensated for any costs you incur, but also because if someone can see a return it helps motivate them to maintain, innovate and respond to outages, deservedly so.

  • We should be promoting a return for effort, but I thank you for going out of your way to deliver this essential part of the TiddlyWiki ecosystem without demanding payment. Thus call on anyone with the means to support you to do so.
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#6

Not to begin with, but I feel like it would be possible.

#7

There must be some mistake. It was only a couple of months ago, surley, not five years!!

Very much appreciate you providing tiddlyhost. Thank you.

SUBSCRIBE! THROW MONEY AT SIMON!

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#8

Sorry for coming in late, but hearty congratulations @simon. TiddlyHost has been a pivotal part of the TiddlyWiki community all its life (as was TiddlySpot before that). Let’s toast to many more years ahead.

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#10

Thank you Simon for Tiddlyhost and happy 5th Birthday to it!

Tiddlyhost is not only useful to host and share wikis but also to share plugins, themes, tips, documentation, work in progress … and even to host plugin library.

Tiddlyhost is really contributing to TiddlyWiki ecosystem.

Best regards,

Eskha

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#11

I just want to say happy birthday!!!

TiddlyHost (and TiddlySpot before it) had been a gift for this community and for the software commons. I used almost everyday for my personal notes and promote it with my students at the university and in my local hackerspace.

I think that a celebration for this and the upcoming years could be related with projects that TiddlyHost have made possible, from personal ones like hosting your bliki, to our TTRPG group place to linguistic revitalizing for indigenous people in the Colombian Amazonas. Mabye we could propose and curate places powered by TiddlyHost and showcase them more prominently in a place for celebrating the community that TH empowers.

Also I think this could be a moment to celebrate @simon as the main force behind these projects. Maybe a Ask Me Anything session hosted in this very forum could allow the rest of the community to know more about Simon’s motivations and more in general, if he is willing to participate.

Thanks for this constant gift.

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#12

Thanks @Offray , you’re very kind! :heart:

FWIW I’m not against the AMA idea.

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#13

Since you mentioned Tiddlyspot, I guess there’s a 20 year anniversary coming up soon according to this.

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