GTD Connect Moving to New Platform???

Ariadne Marques said:
Yeah, I am not a huge fan of the Might forum style, with big cards even with the "List View" option turned on (I just recently discovered that I could change from Feed View to List View).
If this forum is deactivated, I will miss it, but I am sure I will be able to adapt to the new one.
But the experience with the Mighty app on my iPhone Mini is terrible, so I uninstalled it.
Which is okay with me, I much rather prefer interacting in forums on the big screen anyway.
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Jumping back in after about 8 years...

I have a prediction (I'm a bit of a platform perfectionist) which is:
1. MightyNetworks will draw a different crowd.
2. The OG's on this forum will stay on this forum, as long as others also stay on this forum.

I've been toying with MightyNetworks since it first began, when Circle was in its infant years. There's really nothing that will replace the old, organized, thread-based forums because by design they encourage calmn, quiet thoughtfulness.

MightyNetworks has a warm body feel, but that is mostly a false feeling. No one really engages with others, and what happens is people sign up, post away for hours, and then drop off as soon as a shinier toy comes along. It is not built for longevity, and I myself have never stayed with a single group for more than a few weeks.

I also predict that at some point, a library of GTD content will emerge that is separate from all the forums, but can be tapped into from different angles. 2026 is a strange time. A lot of great platforms have completely shut down or been bought out, and DAUs are down on all the new-kids-on-the-block apps. Nostr and Farcaster have not taken off as predicted and no one in Community Building World really knows what's next.

Maybe it's meant to be this way!
 
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@John Forrister I found my way back in!

Gmail, by itself, decided GTD emails were spam at some point. I haven't logged into Gmail in many many years, it's funny it developed its own decision-making process. :)

Nice to see you all again, I hope Kelly is still around!
 
kishen said:
Jumping back in after about 8 years...

I have a prediction (I'm a bit of a platform perfectionist) which is:
1. MightyNetworks will draw a different crowd.
2. The OG's on this forum will stay on this forum, as long as others also stay on this forum.

I've been toying with MightyNetworks since it first began, when Circle was in its infant years. There's really nothing that will replace the old, organized, thread-based forums because by design they encourage calmn, quiet thoughtfulness.

MightyNetworks has a warm body feel, but that is mostly a false feeling. No one really engages with others, and what happens is people sign up, post away for hours, and then drop off as soon as a shinier toy comes along. It is not built for longevity, and I myself have never stayed with a single group for more than a few weeks.

I also predict that at some point, a library of GTD content will emerge that is separate from all the forums, but can be tapped into from different angles. 2026 is a strange time. A lot of great platforms have completely shut down or been bought out, and DAUs are down on all the new-kids-on-the-block apps. Nostr and Farcaster have not taken off as predicted and no one in Community Building World really knows what's next.

Maybe it's meant to be this way!
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@kishen

Appreciated perspective . . . thank you very much
 
I've been here reading posts for a few days to get the feel of the GTD Forum again (so refreshing), and it looks like I missed an important development about the GTD Forum transitioning to the Mighty Networks platform. I feel very sorry and disappointed to hear about this change. Several sites I visited chose the Mighty Networks platform, and I was not happy using that platform. I like this easy to understand GTD Forum with its logical construction, easy to use format, and thoughtful, in-depth conversational exchanges that are located where they are supposed to be and stay there. I suppose we are trying to attract people, and we are expecting them to prefer a social media kind of platform, but I never felt comfortable with the Mighty Networks structure, and it does not attract me. I found it very confusing to use, even after some time. It sounds like the transition is active now and unlikely to change, so I may check it out, if I'm invited.
 
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Mrs-Polifax said:
I've been here reading posts for a few days to get the feel of the GTD Forum again (so refreshing), and it looks like I missed an important development about the GTD Forum transitioning to the Mighty Networks platform. I feel very sorry and disappointed to hear about this change. Several sites I visited chose the Mighty Networks platform, and I was not happy using that platform. I like this easy to understand GTD Forum with its logical construction, easy to use format, and thoughtful, in-depth conversational exchanges that are located where they are supposed to be and stay there. I suppose we are trying to attract people, and we are expecting them to prefer a social media kind of platform, but I never felt comfortable with the Mighty Networks structure, and it does not attract me. I found it very confusing to use, even after some time. It sounds like the transition is active now and unlikely to change, so I may check it out, if I'm invited.
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Actually @John Forrister hasn't stated whether this forum will be shut down -- even though I've asked him directly right here in the forum. Even if the powers that be decide to pull the plug on the forums here that are accessible only to GTD Connect subscribers, they might well decide to keep the public forum available on this platform. Or not. It's up in the air.

I think we need to be careful about guessing at the "why" behind the move. John did say this platform required an ungodly amount of customization to get it to do the things it does, where as the Mighty Networks platform doesn't require anywhere near that much work on the back-end. The people behind GTD Connect do have lives with competing demands they have to balance.

Good to see you back, @Mrs-Polifax.
 
I've been interacting with the new Mighty Networks platform. It's become pretty active and there are a lot of new users posting there. The conversations have been lively, interesting and helpful (at least to me). Having spent some time on the platform, I've found it wasn't all that hard to get used to.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say those who are resisting the change are missing out. For me the benefits of the transition have far outweighed the minimal cognitive effort needed to make the switch. But people are entitled to do -- or not do -- whatever they want with their time, for their own reasons. So if anyone has decided not to hop on over to the dark side (a joke -- it's very Jedi over there, not at all Sith-y), I genuinely hope you'll take care and I hope I'll "see" you again somewhere on the interwebz.
 
(Actually, I should add that I'll continue to check out this forum from time to time for as long as it's active. Good-byes may be premature.)
 
Hi Bill, I apologize for missing a direct question. I know a couple of things for sure. Whatever we do, we won't ever just delete this forum. And GTD Connect on Mighty Networks is in for major change in the next few months. We're developing a dedicated standalone mobile app, and redesigning the interface.

Now I need to turn my Saturday attention learn more of the Star Wars references. I confess I haven't even watched most of the movies after the original three.
 
John Forrister said:
Now I need to turn my Saturday attention learn more of the Star Wars references. I confess I haven't even watched most of the movies after the original three.
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Well, the original three are all you need to have seen to understand the Jedi/Sith reference: Obi-Wan, Yoda and eventually Luke were all Jedi; Darth Vader was a Sith Lord. This is just one person's opinion, but the first three were really the only worthwhile ones. The prequels were just Lucas' misguided attempts to recapture lightning in a bottle. Everything afterward was just a Disney cash-grab. Again, just one person's opinion.
 
Come to think of it, maybe David Allen needs to learn some of those Jedi mind tricks. Instead of "these are not the droids you're looking for," he could tell people, "This amorphous to-do list is not the next action list you're looking for." Instead of training people to "trust your feelings" like Obi-Wan coached Luke to do, Allen could tell people, "Trust your trusted system if your inventory of commitments is current and complete."

Admittedly, they don't have the same ring as the Star Wars quotes. Maybe just keep doing what y'all are doing.
 
Looking forward to seeing the new interface on Mighty Networks. I struggle a bit with the current one so I am looking forward to seeing what you come up with!
 
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