Why should we use Talk Tiddlywiki (https://talk.tiddlywiki.org/) instead of Google Forum?
Please complete this list with features I missed!
Best wishes
Not a feature but a reason:
The plan is to eventually make this group read only and move all discussions to Discourse. Actively using Discourse now, and not just for testing, will allow us to discover any pain points etc and make a more informed decision about whether we do want to make that permanent move to Discourse.
So this is a very important reason for users to try Discourse before GG goes to a read only mode!
More features:
I have heard it is possible to TRANSCLUDE Google Forum posts, but I am not sure how!
Best wishes
Mohammad
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Using Share button, you can directly notify other users
More features:
- You can rate replies by thumb up/down! and give a heart to an answer
- You can bookmark a reply!
- Flag posts
I have heard it is possible to TRANSCLUDE Google Forum posts, but I am not sure how!
I post this here as I want to share the asnswere with GG user!
Replied by Boris: https://talk.tiddlywiki.org/t/transcluding-posts-in-discourse/164?u=mohammad
It’s as simple as pasting a link to any other topic or comment on a line by itself as I have done above.
You can see a preview of the text, or all of it if short, and if longer you can click to expand the entire post inline.
Various other links can be pasted and will expand — eg embedding Twitter posts.
Quotes function in a similar way. You can highlight text on mobile or desktop and get a button labeled “Quote”. This will paste the contents into a reply with special formatting.
Feel free to experiment in the comments here!
Unbelievable! Just copy the link to a post and it will transclude the whole post!
I love it!
More Feature of Talk Tiddlywiki (TT)
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I have heard it is possible to TRANSCLUDE Google Forum posts, but I am not sure how!
When you register at Talk TiddlyWiki, you get a message from “discobot” … It is highly recommended that you finish the tutorial that it will show you.
IMO it’s fun and it would have told you, how to “transclude” content from every other internet page … if possible.
-mario
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talk.tiddlywiki.org makes life easier!
Ah, I had a mistake in previous post, item 4 is allows not allow! Sorry
If I had sent this message from talk.tiddlywiki.org, it would allow me to quickly return and edit my message!
GG is not enough forgiving to let me back and correct!
Thank you TT (Talk Tiddlywiki)
One more exciting feature of talk.tiddlywiki.org
When I send a message in GG, I see it in talk.tiddlywiki.org. It mirrors GG and all posts (Q&A)
Yeah, GG still works better for me than TT on my desktop.
I don’t do mobile, and I suspect it is the mobile goodness in discourse that makes the desktop experience pretty crappy from my perspective.
Every several days or so, I do visit https://talk.tiddlywiki.org/.
My big annoyance at the moment: I have a nice 27 inch display and almost half of the width is used up by obscenely sized margins on left and right side, forcing me into more scrolling up and down. (Not an issue when viewing list of topics; is an issue when viewing a specific topic.)
If that gets addressed, then I’ll be fine moving to talk.tiddly.org when GG gets locked.
On the positive side:
Yeah, GG still works better for me than TT on my desktop.
I don’t do mobile, and I suspect it is the mobile goodness in discourse that makes the desktop experience pretty crappy from my perspective.
Every several days or so, I do visit https://talk.tiddlywiki.org/.
My big annoyance at the moment: I have a nice 27 inch display and almost half of the width is used up by obscenely sized margins on left and right side, forcing me into more scrolling up and down. (Not an issue when viewing list of topics; is an issue when viewing a specific topic.)
Q:
To the attention of https://talk.tiddlywiki.org/. admin!
Are there other themes out there to be selected based on the user’s taste and need?
Mohammed,
Go to preferences then Interface and you will see Sams Simple theme.
Just to re-iterate:
“Sam’s Simple Theme” does address one major problem I had
HOWEVER (I think Mohammed was referring to this major peeve of mine): when viewing a discussion topic/thread, the obscene size of left and right side margins rob me of almost 50% of my 27 inch display’s available space width-wise, making for more vertical scrolling and content flying vertically out of view
Hi Charlie,
Boris has replied and suggested having a look at Discourse themes, they welcome to add more themes!
Please see https://talk.tiddlywiki.org/t/other-themes-for-discourse/446
That wasn’t particularly useful.
This Google Search, though, did find:
The “Wide Theme” would be good, but useless to me if I can’t have both the Wide Theme and Sam’s Simple Theme simultaneously.
Well, I suppose there can only be one selected theme, so I’d need some kind soul to combine Wide and Sam’s Simple into an all in one. “Wide Sam’s Simple”? Well, just wide for viewing a topic. With Sam’s Simple to view list of topics, it wouldn’t make much sense for that to be wide.
According to:
Works in the standard themes, Sam’s Minimal theme. May not be compatible with some themes.
-e
Discourse knows 2 types components that can act as a theme.
BUT someone was to dive into the Discourse theme-building mechanism, to define the changes and publish them in a way that fit the Discourse “best practices”.
Theme components have the advantage, that they should “survive” global theme changes made by the default theme.
That said … I did skim the Discourse docs just a little bit, to get an overview. … That’s not enough to create a component as requested. … BUT it should be doable.
have fun!
mario
One nice feature of TT (https://talk.tiddlywiki.org) is it has syntax highlighting and it knows code blocks!
I can simply copy codes by using the handy button top right of code block and paste in my Tiddlywiki!
For example see https://talk.tiddlywiki.org/t/tw5-list-sort-by-count-field-operator/366/7
Thank you TT! You made life easier!