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Hello both, First, please excuse me for the late reply, I've been away for several days and couldn't get a chance to keep you up to date. I think we got into a
by david_p 16y ago
Hello both,
First, please excuse me for the late reply, I've been away for several days and couldn't get a chance to keep you up to date.
I think we got into a dead-end with both proposed solutions having notable drawbacks.
The original sheet (read+write) was (and is still) prone to vandalism, which makes its content unreliable and fragile.
The second sheet (read only + form) I less editable, has no wiki-like features (discussion, correction of mistakes after original submit, etc.).
I think that the drawbacks of the original solutions justified the fork, but I do agree that forks are generaly a bad thing, mostly because of the dissolution of informations and energy that it implies.
To date, I think the best solution comes from the site
hackernewsers.com, the site is simple and straightforward, it addresses all the problems of the previous solutions, and adds some nice features (maps, classification of abilities [improvable], etc.).
I have not been in contact with the author(s) of the site, but I'm quite impressed by the speed at which they delivered this.
So after starting the migration of all country+city data from original sheet to the forked sheet, I stopped and I now think we should direct the people who use the sheets to this new website. What do you think ?
Regards,
David.