on “5. issues with search” i really like @clsturgeon 's rsort e.g. Auto complete with sorting by relevance and am using it with command palette after reading @etardiff 's Navigating to a missing tiddler with the Command Palette? - #7 by etardiff
i can’t access https://philosopher.life/ to read the “audit note by the author” (raised in “1. inability to scale”, which implies Riz’s note is from a while back) but i suffered data loss until i realised that browsers by default will cache (single-file) TW, and started to only use non-cached “private” windows/browser settings to always load the latest version instead of a cached version that might not contain my latest changes. if you haven’t fallen foul of this particular scenario, you will likely never realise it happened, and it’s super difficult to diagnose/appreciate without a particular set of circumstances.
but any saving system for any notetaking system has gotchas (e.g. cloud saving), this is just one that happened to affect my usage of tiddlywiki and happily is now solved. i’m not sure if this is the issue that affected the “audit note by the author” as that note is not accessible to me, but it could be a candidate.
i agree with @Mark_S and others, i also very highly appreciate TW’s semi-“independence” of being able to run a “simple” long-term reliable tool by decent authors, which is a point not mentioned in Riz’s note. a commercial product brings a commercial bias, which carries substantial negative risk that we likely can’t evaluate.