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Re: My Top 10 TW Peeves

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The goal with Tiki is to have all the features very integrated, I think, with consistent interfaces, user input syntax, search results, categorization, and so on. This is probably only possible if the features are homegrown, within Tiki, or if somebody adapts something thoroughly, which may be more work that starting from scratch. It is possible to use outside components in a less-integrated way, like Tikipro uses phpbb. But there is a downside to going this route.

At my family site I use the Gallery photo album scripts inside an iframe in a wiki page for photographs because I already had hundreds of photos on the site in Gallery when I installed Tiki originally, and because Tiki's image gallery is only now approaching the level of Gallery. But users logged into Tiki aren't logged into Gallery (if they have log-in priviledges). Also, searches don't work across both systems, and themes aren't shared. Tiki syntax can't be used in Gallery comments, and so on. Some of these inconsistencies could be fixed if the admin wants to make the effort, but at some point the effort of fixing them becomes great enough, especially when you have not only an image gallery but also forums and other external components that you might want to use with Tiki, that you might as well just use a collection of independent scripts at your site instead of bothering with Tiki at all.

So you have to decide, as your site admin, if a particular aspect of Tiki is so weak that you want to replace it with an outside component, and are willing to put up with the negatives of using an non-integrated component.

Keep in mind that Tiki is a volunteer project that advances because people with skills jump in and work on things they are interested in developing. For this reason, some features progress faster than others. Tiki isn't like a company where there is somebody at the top dictating how features are to be worked on. If a user without coding skills wants a feature to progress, he/she has to be patient, persuade or hire somebody skilled to work on it, or learn to write the code themselves.

I'm sure there's no problem giving feedback, but of course you want to do it in a way that doesn't alienate the people that are key to further progress wink. This is especially true when people are mostly involved for fun, not as a job.

-- Gary

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