HomelabOS fixed my issue with TW!!!

[kelsang sherab]

This post is written for the purpose of helping TW to grow.

I have been aware of TW for a number of years.

I have been fascinated with it and I actually love it. 

But I never managed to get going with it.

My reasons are:

1. The famous [infamous?] learning curve of how to actually use it - it can dazzle the mind very quickly.

2. The GUI - In my last attempt to use TW I suddenly realise that the first thing I always do when I retry to use TW is change the GUI.  I never realise but I think subconsciously I do not like the TW’s GUI and mainly there’s something wrong with the side bar being on the right. Then I failed to find the way to put the side bar on the left. And I got tired of asking you guys stupid questions so again I gave up my TW endeavour. [I know one can change the appearance to one’s liking - TW is extremely flexible - see my first point....][and the community is great but it is tiring always to have to ask what one knows are silly questions]

3. This one is the real discovery that thanks to HomelabOS I realised to be the real issue for me: It is very difficult for a person who is not tech minded and who uses different devices to have one TW centrally served on all devices. For someone who does not know how to set up a server and make it secure - or who does not have the time to go and learn how to do that - this is the real deal breaker.

So yesterday I installed HomelabOS on a digital ocean droplet 

And Looking at their available software I was so glad to see TW

It was the first service i enabled.

How happy I was to have my TW easily available on my iPhone and my iPad?? I was delighted.

Even the normal GUI - which as I said i think needs some changes - became acceptable because I could actually use my TW anywhere!! And in fact the GUI looks rather nice on an iPad and iPhone.

My experience leads me to think [and therefore to take the time to write this post] that if TW is to become the success that it clearly can be [as it does provide something amazing!!] the point of ease of use on different devices must become top of the list issue to work out.

I hope this post is not read as a negative post - it certainly isn’t meant that way.

I wrote this post because I do want this community to succeed. I think you folk have amazing product. It just needs to be accessible.

Cheers

[Riz]

Would you like to write a guide for newbies to get such a set up running? We will feature it in reddit.

Sincerely,

Riz

[kelsang sherab]

I am happy to be involved.

I do not have any experience in writing this kind of things but I am very happy to:

1. Either join a team effort.

2. If no one is willing to do it  I am very happy to try.

In summary: I am up for it - but it will be better if c could do it with someone else.

[Rizwan Ishak]

If you write it up, there will be definitely feedbacks and suggestions. 

On Sat, 23 May 2020, 20:09 kelsang sherab, <asks...@gmail.com> wrote:

I am happy to be involved.

I do not have any experience in writing this kind of things but I am very happy to

Either join a team effort.

If no one is willing to do it  I am very happy to try.

In summary: I am up for it - but it will be better if c could do it with someone else.

On Saturday, May 23, 2020 at 1:50:10 PM UTC+1, Riz wrote:

Would you like to write a guide for newbies to get such a set up running? We will feature it in reddit.

Sincerely,

Riz

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