Madrigal

I don’t get it. How can you even tell the difference?

Everyone keeps forgetting the stolen election in 2000.

There’s a perfectly good definition of the difference between flowers and weeds.

File names are for plebs.

Serious people use document management systems and rich metadata to manage these things.

/snoot

Just start referring to it as “Isn’trael” then.

Technically easy. A baseline wiki is not a particularly complicated application.

The challenge, as always, is shifting the user base, especially content writers, when starting from a small knowledge base. You would need to offer a significantly better experience - or KYM would need to suffer serious enshittification - to have a real hope of doing that.

IMO the one feature that might make an alternative stand out is contextual knowledge surfacing. In other words, if a meme is mentioned in content somewhere, the explanation is automatically made available to the reader without needing to leave the current site/page. Kinda like how some glossary systems work, or Viva Topics before MS stupidly killed it.

You can’t charge a subscription fee for trees.

You still can. Nowadays it shows you really mean it!

Then your only challenge will be converting to and from human-friendly formats and cleansing user input. Easy.

It’s what happens when James uses the good dining forks to unjam the cupboard door again.

Imagine thinking that’ll be the biggest date-related computing problem for a galactic society.

If you really want to make programmers despair, point out:

• massive variations in day, month and year lengths on different worlds.
• some worlds may not have “months” (no moons, or many moons).
• ambiguous definition of “year” for multi-star systems.
• days may be longer than years (hello Venus).
• communication latency across interstellar distances.
• tine dilation.