What are the preferences for questions in this community?

Wpq

unread,

Jul 6, 2020, 10:52:43 AM7/6/20

to TiddlyWiki

As I am diving into TiddlyWiki I will have several questions (which are hopefully not covered in the documentation).

Is it better to ask the questions here

one message per question, StackOverflow-style?
or group all my questions in batches?

I also saw that there was a subred - which place is preferred to ask question?

Ste Wilson

unread,

Jul 6, 2020, 11:05:44 AM7/6/20

to TiddlyWiki

Ask away and we will shout at you for doing it wrong :)

Not really. It's a friendly bunch here.

Here is the place I think. If your questions are related stick em together. If you think they might need a bit of space to breath stick em in their own thread.
You can always start a new thread if a question in a multiparter gets swamped by helpful replies to another part :)

Eric Shulman

unread,

Jul 6, 2020, 11:27:34 AM7/6/20

to TiddlyWiki

In general, one message per question works best. This makes it easier for others to search for that same question

and quickly find any relevant responses without having to dig through a lot of discussion of other issues.

There are several online services that have TiddlyWiki communities. GoogleGroups is the oldest and most active

of those, but Twitter and Reddit have their followers as well. I suspect that most people who are on Twitter

or Reddit also come here, so this is probably the best place to start when asking a question. Of course, when

looking for answers that might have already been posted, I'd check all sources (including the mail-archive.com list,

which has "enhanced searching" compared with GoogleGroups (oh, the irony!)

-e

TW Tones

unread,

Jul 6, 2020, 7:40:29 PM7/6/20

to TiddlyWiki

WPQ,

I will also add, especially for gamers there is the "TiddlyWiki 5" Discord community as well.

I support both Eric and Stes suggestions do the following as well when possible

Followup and share the final solution if possible
At a minimum share when it is completed
Think of yourself as an explorer, and try an leave a trail behind you for other explorers in the future

So if they discover you question they can follow you to a solution.
Try and turn your learning into useful information

As a community we often take positive and negative experiences of new users to craft improvements and changes in the long run.

Regards

Tony

Mark Kerrigan

unread,

Jul 7, 2020, 6:19:52 PM7/7/20

to TiddlyWiki

Don't be afraid to ask. The more questions posted here the better because then if someone has a same question they can also follow your footsteps. Sometimes the solutions proposed to the same question are not always the best, and the best answer to the same question might change over time.