Re: [Phpwiki-talk] New User General Questions

[Thompson, S. <S.D...@te...>]

Having started this thread (I'm the new user) I've followed it and occasionally become confused.

However, thanks to the comments I can now see clearly that, as an average user with some tech skills (but only average) that phpwiki is not a piece of software I should pursue the use of.  I came to it via my Cpanel in Fantastico and it looked promising. It still looks promising but the promise is unfulfilled. I shall suggest that my ISP remove it from the Fantasico offering.

It's all well and good to say users may stumble upon it and use it or not, try it out, it's free. No actually, it's not free - it costs the user time to figure it out and seek support and documentation and if these things are not easily found then the time wasted by the potential user can build up.

IMHO I think this product should be moved away from public view where it can be stumbled upon and trialed to the frustration and eventual abandonment of the user. I don't quite know what the references to the 1000's of folks behind a firewall meant but perhaps this is where this software should go - behind a firewall.

I hope I've not upset anyone with my comments, this is not my intention, it's quite possible I've misunderstood many things.

Steve T


On 01/04/2010 09:53, "Oliver Betz" <li...@gm...> wrote:

Reini Urban wrote:

> >>> I still see no active "community".
> >>
> >> Yes, as I said, it's not visible here.
> >
> > where is it visible? Maybe...
>
> Between 50 and 100 messages per month is not so bad.

that was long, long ago. So this should read "_was_ not bad".

> https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=phpwiki-talk
> In the last two years it settled because users went away.

More than two years. That's the problem I'm writing about.

I don't want to degrade your work on PhpWiki - I thank you that you
took over PhpWiki maintenance (I'm still running a 2006 version where
you already contributed).

But the website and "we really don't need to persuade others to use
it. Install it, try it out, through it away. You are free." confirm
my impression that PhpWiki is now just for few "insiders" but not
recommendable for the average user.

Oliver
--
Oliver Betz, Muenchen


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