turnermm wrote
Its a community that centers around a core group of developers. If the community were interested in 'modernity', there would be more of what you are looking for.
So you're saying the community and/or the developers are not interested in modernity? Well, fair enough - they are, as you say, not beholden to shareholders, it is their prerogative.
But that's not really the point. Dokuwiki may not be a commercial product, but it nevertheless exists and has a position within an enormous market place, the world wide web, surrounded by thousands of competing softwares, a place of unstoppable trends and momentum, not just in function but also in design. Would any producer displaying and promoting their product in such a market place, and wishing for its continued success and uptake, ignore their 'shop window'?
To be honest, your comments surprise me. For a community within such an exciting, fizzing, rapidly evolving marketplace not to be interested in 'modernity' is odd, to say the least.
As a matter of fact I'm not a person who advocates change for change's sake, nor art for art's sake. But we all, I'm sure, look at the world wide web every day. And we see dazzling designs and improvements to not only the functionality but the appearance of web sites. So much so that the average person expects excellence as a given, as a norm. This billowing cloud of development and progress surrounds us all, we can't not be affected by it...if only to say "oh look, the BBC has changed the design of its sports pages again". We may not always wish to move with the times, but we are swept along all the same.
Don't get me wrong - I've said and continue to say that I think Dokuwiki as a wiki is pretty wonderful, and I admire anyone or any group who can produce such a thing, and let us have it for free. (and in this I include all the voluntary advice you have given to many of us, thank you.) But if the community has no interest in developing DW's position or offering, then DW will remain just what it is - a novel piece of wiki software of limited use unless you're a developer.
Personally, I think that's missing a trick.