Allow hub sites to be designated as "cloneable"

tiddlyhost / tiddlyhost-com

Rails application for creating and hosting TiddlyWiki sites, plus resources for deploying it to https://tiddlyhost.com/

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Allow hub sites to be designated as "cloneable" #266

Closed simonbaird closed 1 year ago

simonbaird commented 2 years ago

If you (as site owner) want to make your site cloneable by others, list it in a the hub and configure it with a "make cloneable" option.
Other signed in users, when browsing the hub will now see a clone button on that cloneable site. Also there would be a hub filter option to show only cloneable sites.

twMat commented 2 years ago

I like.

Any thoughts on what should happen when the close button is clicked? Specifically, I'm thinking it would be neat if the user was presented (modal?) with two alternatives: a field to fill in a non-existing Tiddlyhost name so to create a new site - or - show a list of the users sites (perhaps in a revealwidget?) so one can be selected for overwriting.

simonbaird commented 2 years ago

I'm thinking it would take you to the same form as it does for the existing clone function. What's the use case for replacing an existing site when cloning?

twMat commented 2 years ago

OK maybe that would be overkill. I was thinking that the user might first have first created the site only to then "fill" it with the solution he wants. This would also allow for a user to try out several solutions by overwriting easily it with a new one if desired. But, perhaps overkill.

AnthonyMuscio commented 2 years ago

Thanks Simon this sounds like a good approach. One thought when building this is can we make it possible for the source wiki to publish a button to "clone to my repository", ideally using the same mechanism to keep it simple. The equivalent of a download button.

I thought this could be a premium feature but on reflection less barrier to new users, and shared editions the better.

simonbaird commented 2 years ago

I pushed this up to prod just now. If you want to try sharing a "template", which is what I'm calling a site that is configured as publicly cloneable, you can check the box under advanced settings.

If you want to browse the available templates, go to https://tiddlyhost.com/hub?t=1 .

One thing that could become a problem if is we get a lot of low quality, spammy templates showing up, but let's cross that bridge when we come to it.

simonbaird commented 1 year ago

make it possible for the source wiki to publish a button to "clone to my repository"

Linking to: https://tiddlyhost.com/sites/new?clone=sitename will do it.

simonbaird commented 1 year ago

Done, mostly in 8b449cb5 but there are some related tweaks after that.