Opinion: Usage, Encouragement & Numbers

[@TiddlyTweeter]

Maybe I'm fouling the footpath?

Not sure.

I been reflecting on TW USAGE VOLUME. Not just TW vanilla. But apps & plugins too.

Mainly to know WHETHER its worth sharing?

I MEAN, is it worth the hassle posting to benefit just Donovan and His Dog?

Right now its not so easy to answer "Who Is Using What Most" because we track nothing normally--by design.

But in my naive view I do think Numbers Counts can have a good synergistic effect we are missing out on.

Just thoughts.

Josiah

 

[Mat]

Number wise, no. The absolute majority of plugins etc are probably not used by others.

BUT:

One big reason to share is that it encourages the community at large and inspires others to share - things that you may find useful!

More directly, sharing definitely helps you to improve your thingy. You can get other peoples valuable ideas, info or actual code. 

And bugs are much more likely to be discovered

I'm probably one of the more ambitious share'rs, so take it from me: YES, it's worth it ;-)

<:-)

[@TiddlyTweeter]

Ciao Riz

Interesting to get an informed reply that is so concrete.

(2) is most interesting, Jed's "Gatekeeper", I was completely unaware of it.

I am now, so tx.

J, x

On Friday, 24 November 2017 18:13:53 UTC+1, Riz wrote:

What is used most, that is a tricky question.  Different set ups demand different plugins obviously,  but I will enlist top three solutions of others that I use regularly nowadays.

1) Arlen's Tiddlyserver: My personal wikis at a single place. Fact that I can use the same solution in all platforms makes this a definite top of the chart.
2) Jed's Gatekeeper plugin:  Finally a solution that will enable me to use sublime-text to edit wikis. Its beta is amazing,  I guess the release candidate would be even more.
3) JD's mobile menu.  I am slowly adding the theme and palettes  to all my wikis. I hope atleast the  palettes will make it into core.  TW5 badly needs some modern black palettes.

[@TiddlyTweeter]

Mat wrote:

... One big reason to share is that it encourages the community ...

 

... sharing definitely helps you to improve your thingy ...

 

... bugs are much more likely to be discovered ...

... I'm probably one of the more ambitious share'rs, so take it from me: YES, it's worth it ;-)

Definitely so.

Do you have a definitive address we, the readers, can find everything of your excellence through? 

J, x

[Mat]

@TiddlyTweeter wrote:

Do you have a definitive address we, the readers, can find everything of your excellence through?  

Afraid not. But at least I have a solid excuse for not having it; pure laziness ;-)

<:-)

[@TiddlyTweeter]

Glad we cleared that up.

J, x

@TiddlyTweeter asked:

Do you have a definitive address we, the readers, can find everything of your excellence through? 

Mat amiably replied:

[TonyM]

On getting stats.

with an optin to help collect stats

perhaps we could have a plugin that would move to the core that would touch some urls on a server such that we can get some basic analytics. perhaps a version of the qualify macro could generate a unique or almost unique serial number from the file name and created date, and a qualify on each plugin name allow active plugins to be registered. tie in tw version which saver was used or which edition was the source and we would have some comprehencive stats.

regards
tony

[Ste Wilson]

There was a pull request for an update the Google analyitics plugin to do better tracking. Don't know how far that goes.