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Possible solutions....Re: Complaints

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Most of your complaints have been addressed, but I'll chime in with my $0.02.....

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> 1) The sessions bug. Spend a long time writing a Wiki article, click Save... and you're logged out and what you've written is totally lost. Now, I know this isn't a bug that's only suffered by my site. It happens on both of my webhosts with 16x and 192, and it happens here, too, I found. It's unacceptable. And it, more than anything else, is why I have to get rid of this half-assed software. My site just loses too much content because of it.
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Good observation. In the Wiki Admin page, you can increase this time-out, but it is really just a band-aid. What I'd like to see is an alert for the user before they time out. Something like:

Warning! Your edit session will timeout in 1 minute. Please PREVIEW you r current edits to continue.

Or something similar. To the developers: How hard would this be to implement?


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> 2) It's ugly as hell in every possible way. Fonts are too tiny (what's this I'm writing in, 1pt?), pages barely ever render correctly (where's the login box? Oh, it's rendered to the right of the visible area), and, oh fuck, how ugly can software possibly be? Of course, I'm aware that TW ships with multiple themes. But most of them don't work. How rubbish.
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Well, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, eh? You're completely free to edit the CSS and create your own styles, as needed



> 3) How many files to upload? Sure, having 4000 files is fine when you run your own server or if you've got shell access to your webhosting, but d'you want to try uploading that many files to a remote host? It's practically impossible. The bloat doesn't end with the amount of files, either. This is the slowest software I've ever had the displeasure to use, and the only PHP software I've ever tried that won't run properly because it uses too much memory.
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As for the number of files, I agree. This is especially difficult for "minor" updates. To reduce the number of files, I'd like to recommend:

  1. Shipping only 3 or 4 "base" themes with each install. Users can go to themes.tikiwiki.org to browse or download additional themes.
  2. Shipping only 3 or 4 "base" languages (those that are 90%+ completed). Users can always download additional languages, as needed.


These suggestions will help reduce the overall size by more than 1MB and more than 300 files.

-Rick

> It's all very poor. Very, very poor.
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> Anyway, that all said, does anyone know the quickest and easiest way to dump the contents of my Wiki and convert it to Media Wiki format? If you could tell me, t'would be greatly appreciated.
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> And now, let the nerdy flames commence :-)
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