GTD Connect Moving to New Platform???

boomer70

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I have received two (2) emails about GTD Connect moving to a new platform (Mighty Networks) and I am wondering if they are real as there is nothing mentioned here at all. Can anyone confirm as I am leery about spoofing?
 
I can confirm as well. The New platform has been live for a while, and they are letting New members in "in bulk" - my guess is for stress-testing... Welcome over!
 
Yes, it's for real. We wanted to invite current members before announcing in other ways. And the challenge is how to invite without it appearing to be spoofing, as you said @boomer70. I emailed some folks from my work address, and still had replies questioning if the invitation is real. Using the invite form in the new platform had the same result, with members then emailing me, or messaging here, to make sure it's legit.
 
John Forrister said:
Yes, it's for real. We wanted to invite current members before announcing in other ways. And the challenge is how to invite without it appearing to be spoofing, as you said @boomer70. I emailed some folks from my work address, and still had replies questioning if the invitation is real. Using the invite form in the new platform had the same result, with members then emailing me, or messaging here, to make sure it's legit.
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Thank you! With all the spoofing going on, I like to err on the side of caution. I will register.
 
I'm not sure what the process is to get onto the new Connect.
are our current sign in and subscriptions carrying over?
 
I just tried to email John from the invite I got and it failed because it was routed through mightynetworks. I’ve been trialing it and I hate to be “that guy” but I’m not seeing the value yet. There’s very little activity.
 
I am glad someone posted this thread here since I saw that email come through a few times over the past few months and thought it was spam, a scam, or another test/experiment that was being ran (i.e. David was testing SubStack a while back). I didn't give it much thought until recently. You can't ever be too careful these days.

I am still largely undecided on the move to the new platform. I have mixed thoughts. There's definitely been, and still are, issues both in terms of communication and coordination in rolling it out to the community. The 75% price savings is quite nice though, that's very much appreciated and more inline with the current reality. The overall topics/groupings seem more relevant in the new platform, though that could just be what's in the with the times.

As for the platform itself, well, it's definitely more modern than XenForo (the underlying platform used by GTDConnect) that's for sure. It is not a forum platform, which is different. I am not sure it's better or worse, just different. Personally, it's pretty clear that the MN platform is not conducive to effective communication or learning. It's really geared more towards the "social media feed" consumption mentality, which is a bit of a weird choice given the GTD brand. I could be wrong though and just not experienced enough with it.

I am sure there are larger plans and more details to work out. However, at the moment, there's no reason to use the new platform in favor of the current one. I am largely ignoring the new one for a few reasons. Mostly since there's no threads to quickly gauge things and see a larger swath of information (again, it's geared for a social media mentality by having each entry be obnoxiously large "cards"). More deeply though, there is no value available in the new platform. Nothing has been cloned over to it from the current one. It's, for all intents and purposes, empty and lacks usefulness that the current one has built up for 20+ years.

I have the new GTD Connect platform on my "wait and see how it goes" list. I will say this though: not having any plan to clone content over to the new platform (as I haven't seen or heard anything regarding such) while just shutting down and losing the current platform, at any rate, would mean effectively ending GTD Connect. At that point, it would make Reddit a more effective community to then join and discuss GTD (which let's be honest ... Reddit's not a good thing per se).
 
Matt_M said:
I am glad someone posted this thread here since I saw that email come through a few times over the past few months and thought it was spam, a scam, or another test/experiment that was being ran (i.e. David was testing SubStack a while back). I didn't give it much thought until recently. You can't ever be too careful these days.

I am still largely undecided on the move to the new platform. I have mixed thoughts. There's definitely been, and still are, issues both in terms of communication and coordination in rolling it out to the community. The 75% price savings is quite nice though, that's very much appreciated and more inline with the current reality. The overall topics/groupings seem more relevant in the new platform, though that could just be what's in the with the times.

As for the platform itself, well, it's definitely more modern than XenForo (the underlying platform used by GTDConnect) that's for sure. It is not a forum platform, which is different. I am not sure it's better or worse, just different. Personally, it's pretty clear that the MN platform is not conducive to effective communication or learning. It's really geared more towards the "social media feed" consumption mentality, which is a bit of a weird choice given the GTD brand. I could be wrong though and just not experienced enough with it.

I am sure there are larger plans and more details to work out. However, at the moment, there's no reason to use the new platform in favor of the current one. I am largely ignoring the new one for a few reasons. Mostly since there's no threads to quickly gauge things and see a larger swath of information (again, it's geared for a social media mentality by having each entry be obnoxiously large "cards"). More deeply though, there is no value available in the new platform. Nothing has been cloned over to it from the current one. It's, for all intents and purposes, empty and lacks usefulness that the current one has built up for 20+ years.

I have the new GTD Connect platform on my "wait and see how it goes" list. I will say this though: not having any plan to clone content over to the new platform (as I haven't seen or heard anything regarding such) while just shutting down and losing the current platform, at any rate, would mean effectively ending GTD Connect. At that point, it would make Reddit a more effective community to then join and discuss GTD (which let's be honest ... Reddit's not a good thing per se).
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That’s a fair analysis. I came to similar but congruent conclusions based on my experience with the Learning Management Systems (LMS’s), which are used by most universities today to manage most aspects of course management. It would be depressing if Reddit was more effective than the new platform. Reddit is a poor vehicle for discussing a lot of things, including GTD, because threads are usually short and lose coherence very quickly. I’m waiting too but not really looking at the new platform anymore.
 
Bill Myers said:
There have been threads in this forum that have been biblical in length and also incoherent. Maybe Reddit is just more efficient at incoherence. In which case it's a feature and not a bug.
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Efficient incoherence is clearly a worthy goal to be pursued diligently by all.
 
I hope to clarify some things from this thread.

A lot of content has been migrated to the new GTD Connect. We're primarily moving newest first, working back chronologically. If there is a particular item or category you're not seeing, please email connect@davidco.com. Quite likely I can point you to where it is, or tell you why it's not there yet. You might be surprised at how fast the content will reflect your requests.

This forum runs on XenForo software, but the legacy GTD Connect does not.

The legacy GTD Connect runs on an e-commerce database with extensive custom coding. "Extensive" is only three syllables and doesn't nearly describe the modifications. When it was built there was nothing off the shelf to do what we wanted. Now there are many options. Not one does everything that legacy GTD Connect does. Still, many of them offer things that the legacy GTD Connect doesn't have. (Potentially could have, with great effort to build and maintain.) I can bend your ear about what other products we've tried and why we didn't choose them.

And Reddit? I will just say that we're proud of the fact that this forum does not contain ads, spam is blocked or deleted promptly, and misinformation about GTD is corrected quickly and helpfully by a smart community of users, meaning you.
 
John Forrister said:
I hope to clarify some things from this thread.

A lot of content has been migrated to the new GTD Connect. We're primarily moving newest first, working back chronologically. If there is a particular item or category you're not seeing, please email connect@davidco.com. Quite likely I can point you to where it is, or tell you why it's not there yet. You might be surprised at how fast the content will reflect your requests.

This forum runs on XenForo software, but the legacy GTD Connect does not.

The legacy GTD Connect runs on an e-commerce database with extensive custom coding. "Extensive" is only three syllables and doesn't nearly describe the modifications. When it was built there was nothing off the shelf to do what we wanted. Now there are many options. Not one does everything that legacy GTD Connect does. Still, many of them offer things that the legacy GTD Connect doesn't have. (Potentially could have, with great effort to build and maintain.) I can bend your ear about what other products we've tried and why we didn't choose them.

And Reddit? I will just say that we're proud of the fact that this forum does not contain ads, spam is blocked or deleted promptly, and misinformation about GTD is corrected quickly and helpfully by a smart community of users, meaning you.
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So is the plan to shut this one down? I assume so since you’re migrating content. ☹️
 
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