[contrib] Niche is good, but...

Gocom · 2009-10-14 18:06:10

hcgtv wrote:

Gocom is doing some great work in the plugin arena, maybe he has the time to get involved in textpattern.org?

Bloke wrote:

Gocom would be great yes. I’d start it myself if only I could track down someone who has a Publisher login/FTP access and could furnish a few more people with those privileges. Nobody seems to know who is the current maintainer though (well I don’t, and nobody’s offered any ideas afaik). Answers on a postcard to the usual address…

Is Ruud the current owner? Or isn’t?

Apart of the owner thing, if we want to get the automagic plugin update notify “feed” system, I can offered me to get involved with it. I’m not so interested in updating or designing the site, but I can do the system, or part of it.

ruud · 2009-10-14 18:59:27

I never had FTP access on TXP.org nor am I the owner (Dean owns the domain, I think). I just have a publisher login from when I helped Alicson (who does have FTP access) move TXP.org to version 2.

Bloke · 2009-10-14 19:03:30

Gocom wrote:

Is Ruud the current owner? Or isn’t?

I don’t know yet. I would have thought if he was he’d have said so by now. I’ll ask. Someone must have a login somewhere!

if we want to get the automagic plugin update notify “feed” system, I can offered me to get involved with it. I’m not so interested in updating or designing the site, but I can do the system, or part of it.

That’d be brilliant, thanks. If Jonathan can do the visual stuff / site design and you (perhaps me as well if I get time) can look into the system side of things to really make it cook then we’ll be most of the way there. Anyone else is a bonus. I’ll probably try to trawl through the content and move the tips/tricks/any useful mods that haven’t been nuked out of the water by 4.2.0 over to Textbook.

I’ll mail some folk now to find out who has a login and FTP access.

EDIT: Aha! Thanks for the clarification, ruud. Fancy getting involved with this project or not?

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lozmatic · 2009-10-15 06:36:39

I’m curious as to what the new txp.com will be communicating.

I hope that there will be big badass buttons pointing to content telling people how good TXP is and they should use it (or die).

Will someone draft a press release of some sort and fire it off to relevant publishers?

Would be good to have a bit of a heads up about when things are going to happen so we can get ready to publish blog posts on our own sites and perhaps and things like that.

alicson · 2009-10-15 14:25:56

Thanks for contacting me, Stef :)

Dean owns the domain, I have the keys, ruud is a master the universe and this project would be most successful with him on board.

Shall we start a group email or something to distribute access, etc.?

Also, hi! I’ve missed this place.

hakjoon · 2009-10-15 20:24:06

Alicson!!

Welcome back.

lozmatic · 2009-10-16 00:41:50

alicson wrote:

Shall we start a group email or something to distribute access, etc.?

Basecamp is a great online collaboration space in case a project is being born and PM stuff such as milestones, scope, tasks, etc… need to be tracked. Basecamp features discussions where people can participate via a board or by email.

I wouldn’t mind helping out and I’m sure other people would be more than happy to contribute too.

Bloke · 2009-10-16 08:23:02

lozmatic wrote:

I hope that there will be big badass buttons pointing to content telling people how good TXP is

lol. Well the download button is huge, does that count?

Will someone draft a press release of some sort and fire it off to relevant publishers?

Sure, gimme a list of who you deem relevant publishers (‘cos I’ve no idea) and I’ll see what I can get organized. Someone round these parts must be good at press release-type stuff.

Would be good to have a bit of a heads up about when things are going to happen

One section needs its copy text and navigation tightening, then I think we’re just waiting for Stuart to come back and check everything still works. I’m happy with how it looks now, the legacy FAQs are in the process of being moved and nobody else has complained about the site (I don’t know how many people have actually seen the latest iteration, mind you).

There might be a few font tweaks that need doing based on feedback we’ve had, but as I’m rubbish at that sort of thing someone else will no doubt play with it.

Basecamp is a great online collaboration space

Yes, it’s great, but not free :-( Unless you happen to have an account we can hijack…?

Thanks to Alicson’s boundless enthusiasm I’ve initiated discussion with a bunch of people who have pledged to help out with txp.org (thanks!). As soon as we’ve formalised what’s going on and how we’re going to tame the site, we’ll keep everyone up to date via the forum.

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alicson · 2009-10-19 18:30:13

::grins and waves at Patrick::

@lozmatic Basecamp is always a solid suggestion; I’ve used it both with success and without — it depends entirely on how much the group users utilize it. Otherwise, email/a shared Google document can be even more collaborative. Whatever the active participants are most comfortable with :)

We’ve starting movement on some steps in this whole leaping forward process; if you’re interested in getting your hands dirty with us, send an email or something and hop into the sandbox :)

hilaryaq · 2010-01-06 13:19:23

Nooooo! The wordpress community is NOTHING like Textpattern.

When I started off in web design, I tried wordpress, obviously as a beginner I wasn’t very good, anyway I asked a simple ‘how to do something’ question in the forum, which never got answered, and some troll type person said something like ‘anyone can call themselves a web designer these days’, anyway, I got trolled and the administrators never even did anything about it.

Fast forward to Textpattern, I had a problem with the entire web site not showing on Safari/Mac, and I didn’t own one. I had a total stranger from the txp forum spend about 2 hours with me doing screenshots on his mac, posting them, and then we figured out it was a js error in the end..

That is only the tip of the iceberg. The txp community is more down to earth, more helpful, more friendly, AND, you have the benefit of having a web site that isn’t targeted by hackers.

Wordpress web sites get hacked all day every day.

I can’t even explain how much I love Txp, we don’t need to get bigger, or more commercial, what we need is for more quality programmers to develop it. I wish I had the programming skills required, I am attempting to learn how to write plugins, but without being a php programmer it takes me forever! I have done video tutorials for clients on youtube, and I intend to do video tutorials for web designers too with more technical aspects of the cms and how it works..

Anyway, love txp so much, and it won’t go anywhere as long as we all put a little time into developing/promoting/contributing!

JimJoe · 2010-01-31 21:18:50

@hilaryaq, that is why I left word press as well. The verbiage directed at me was somewhat different, but the same abuse. I got it due to me calling into question an auto-save function that saved to draft in the amount of time it took me to move my mouse over to click on the Publish button. I felt it was a wasted step. They took umbrage. Ah well. WP was good around 2 years ago, but they ‘tweaked it’ into unusefulness.

As for companies going for blogs… well, my employer seems to adore Sharepoint. I looked over some documentation for it… doesn’t seem all that unusual nor snazzy. Not to mention bloatware.

After Wordpress I tried others. Some of my small sites use Nucleus as the free host I use doesn’t have cgi-bin. My paid site/domain has cgi-bin, so I went with Movable Type. It works well, but I prefer faster than 2 weeks apart responses when I look to modify it to better look like I want it to…

So, a friend at the free host forums suggested I try one of the comparison sites. I wound up here.

JimJoe · 2010-03-17 00:40:09

Me as well. I went to the word press forums looking for help, and got abuse. I did away with all 6 of my wp blogs. Went to Nucleus and Movable Type. I left MT due to lack of anything resembling help. I have tried around 7-10 blog/cms setups. i have looked over Joomla, Drupal, Geeklog, Mambo, Xoops, typo3, b2evolution, and a number of others.

Now I’m here.

Textpattern has a better community, better help files, and more variety than any other blog/cms that I have tried over the past 5 years.

I would say Nucleus has good imagination in templates, but I prefer Textpattern.

edit:

Okay, I guess I need to get more sleep. Didn’t realize I had already replied to this.

Good-night.

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