Danielo Rodríguez
2016-09-26 16:51:47 UTC
Hello,
This is both a reflection, a touch of attention and a desperate call to all
the users that feels like me, if there is any.
Three years ago when I first discovered tiddlywiki I found both, TWClassing
and TW5. I decided to go for TW5 because it looked much better on my
mobile, and that gave me a feeling of future-proof software. As opposed to
TWClassic, which remind me to the first mobile web experiences: an
unreadable bird view of a page that required to zoom and scroll all the
time. So, as I said, despite it's lacks and faults I go for tw 5.0.5
After three years things haven't evolved for mobile users, or at least not
in the good way. The only community that grows is that one that doesn't
care about mobile, which is presumably the same that didn't care about it
on TWClassic before, but now on TW5. The only issues that are discussed and
the new features that are implemented doesn't care about mobile, it doesn't
matter, it is just take for granted, what we have is good enough.
I read this forum mostly from mobile, and when someone makes an
announcement, or posts a link to any new good stuff my first impression is
the one that I have from my phone. If I'm unable to use it comfortably on
mobile I usually close that tab and forget about it.
In a world that is moving to "mobile first, forget about desktop focus on
mobile, mobile rules!" experiences, tiddlywiki community is moving on the
opposite direction. Twitter, Facebook and Github are examples of how doing
things well: If I add their page to my home screen I can't distinguish it
from a native app.
Just to mention some examples, Jed Carty <http://inmysocks.tiddlyspot.com/>
has a wiki that seems to hate mobile screens, Mat's magic
<http://twaddle.tiddlyspot.com/#TWaddle:TWaddle> seems to be restricted to
desktop browsers, Cardo <http://cardo.wiki> requires so much horizontal
scroll that I forget about what was at the left side when I reach the other
side of the wiki. I fought to death with Felix to convince him to provide
an alternative way of displaying Tiddlymap's graphs, because on his
extra-extra wide screen it was just fine to put everything on the sidebar.
A couple of alerts is enough to fill the entire screen
<https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/issues/1743>, popups are used
everywhere like they were a good idea, and the new search mechanism on a
popup is just *a bad joke*. Most of the users here don't see any advantage
on using NoteSelf because syncing an entire file of *6MB* on their high
bandwidth internet connections is not even noticeable. And those are just
some random examples on an entire sea of issues for mobile users.
I would ask to those tiddlywiki wizards that do not want to care about
mobile to totally disable their creations on mobile, because the lack of a
feature is better than a bad experience using it. Github for example
doesn't have all the features on their mobile version.
Does anybody subscribe to any of the things that I said above? Am I the
only interested on using tiddlywiki on my mobile phone? I want to know this
because it maybe it will be easier to leave tiddlywiki and go with any of
the products that cares about mobile than fighting the entire community.
This is both a reflection, a touch of attention and a desperate call to all
the users that feels like me, if there is any.
Three years ago when I first discovered tiddlywiki I found both, TWClassing
and TW5. I decided to go for TW5 because it looked much better on my
mobile, and that gave me a feeling of future-proof software. As opposed to
TWClassic, which remind me to the first mobile web experiences: an
unreadable bird view of a page that required to zoom and scroll all the
time. So, as I said, despite it's lacks and faults I go for tw 5.0.5
After three years things haven't evolved for mobile users, or at least not
in the good way. The only community that grows is that one that doesn't
care about mobile, which is presumably the same that didn't care about it
on TWClassic before, but now on TW5. The only issues that are discussed and
the new features that are implemented doesn't care about mobile, it doesn't
matter, it is just take for granted, what we have is good enough.
I read this forum mostly from mobile, and when someone makes an
announcement, or posts a link to any new good stuff my first impression is
the one that I have from my phone. If I'm unable to use it comfortably on
mobile I usually close that tab and forget about it.
In a world that is moving to "mobile first, forget about desktop focus on
mobile, mobile rules!" experiences, tiddlywiki community is moving on the
opposite direction. Twitter, Facebook and Github are examples of how doing
things well: If I add their page to my home screen I can't distinguish it
from a native app.
Just to mention some examples, Jed Carty <http://inmysocks.tiddlyspot.com/>
has a wiki that seems to hate mobile screens, Mat's magic
<http://twaddle.tiddlyspot.com/#TWaddle:TWaddle> seems to be restricted to
desktop browsers, Cardo <http://cardo.wiki> requires so much horizontal
scroll that I forget about what was at the left side when I reach the other
side of the wiki. I fought to death with Felix to convince him to provide
an alternative way of displaying Tiddlymap's graphs, because on his
extra-extra wide screen it was just fine to put everything on the sidebar.
A couple of alerts is enough to fill the entire screen
<https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/issues/1743>, popups are used
everywhere like they were a good idea, and the new search mechanism on a
popup is just *a bad joke*. Most of the users here don't see any advantage
on using NoteSelf because syncing an entire file of *6MB* on their high
bandwidth internet connections is not even noticeable. And those are just
some random examples on an entire sea of issues for mobile users.
I would ask to those tiddlywiki wizards that do not want to care about
mobile to totally disable their creations on mobile, because the lack of a
feature is better than a bad experience using it. Github for example
doesn't have all the features on their mobile version.
Does anybody subscribe to any of the things that I said above? Am I the
only interested on using tiddlywiki on my mobile phone? I want to know this
because it maybe it will be easier to leave tiddlywiki and go with any of
the products that cares about mobile than fighting the entire community.
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