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So how do you make one of your shared documents point to another of your shared documents? How do you have people collaboratively create and edit shared documen

So how do you make one of your shared documents point to another of your shared documents? How do you have people collaboratively create and edit shared documents? How do you view the history or one of your shared documents? I do not see what advantage there is in having a list of files over a wiki (since wikis can of course contain files of files, among other things).

johnchristopher 9y ago
> So how do you make one of your shared documents point to another of your shared documents? How do you have people collaboratively create and edit shared documents? How do you view the history or one of your shared documents? Why would that be a priority for small group of people getting together to manage a local exchange service, a collective of local food buyers, etc. ? Sharing file is already cumbersome enough, if you add the whole wiki fest you are scaring people away when they just want to 'put that file online so everyone can have it'. If they want collaborative features point them to google docs or something alike. Wiki aren't user friendly. Let's say I am in a group, my local townhall puts out a PDF of the next roadwork, bus line modificatins, whatever... it's way easier to just `post it` with the submit button that going through the whole html/wiki syntax to transcribe the doc. I played a bit with interface. It's clear, concise and to the point. It maps to what people know of the web and files. > I do not see what advantage there is in having a list of files over a wiki (since wikis can of course contain files of files, among other things). That's because that's not the use case the site seems to try to handle.
- philippejj 9y ago
  Exactly. Although adding some kind of wiki feature might be an interesting idea. I'd like at least to add shortcodes/mentions everywhere so users can insert links to users, discussions, events and files (in every text field). It's a hard to find a balance between ease of use and features. Grandma vs geek :-)

johnchristopher 9y ago

> So how do you make one of your shared documents point to another of your shared documents? How do you have people collaboratively create and edit shared documents? How do you view the history or one of your shared documents? Why would that be a priority for small group of people getting together to manage a local exchange service, a collective of local food buyers, etc. ? Sharing file is already cumbersome enough, if you add the whole wiki fest you are scaring people away when they just want to 'put that file online so everyone can have it'. If they want collaborative features point them to google docs or something alike. Wiki aren't user friendly. Let's say I am in a group, my local townhall puts out a PDF of the next roadwork, bus line modificatins, whatever... it's way easier to just `post it` with the submit button that going through the whole html/wiki syntax to transcribe the doc. I played a bit with interface. It's clear, concise and to the point. It maps to what people know of the web and files. > I do not see what advantage there is in having a list of files over a wiki (since wikis can of course contain files of files, among other things). That's because that's not the use case the site seems to try to handle.

philippejj 9y ago
Exactly. Although adding some kind of wiki feature might be an interesting idea. I'd like at least to add shortcodes/mentions everywhere so users can insert links to users, discussions, events and files (in every text field). It's a hard to find a balance between ease of use and features. Grandma vs geek :-)