Keep up the good work! Also for the "savvies".

We have learned that communicating with our users is a key role to success of Wikidot

Pieter set the bar pretty high in this regard. You have some really big Wikidot fans and maintaining or even growing what Pieter started, especially with this blog, will be important in my opinion.

I appreciate all that you and your development team has done and I'm looking forward to the days ahead.

-Ed

I'm sad to see Pieter go. He was great for Wikidot. After experimenting with several other wiki hosts, I truly believe Wikidot offers the best experience to its users. I truly appreciate how versatile Wikidot is and how much control it gives its users. Transparency has been outstanding. Keep up the great work! I love Wikidot.

Welcome back to the spotlight Michal. If you can make life easier for new users that will be a very good thing. I'm looking forward to see how the blog evolves with you running the show - if I was you I wouldn't try and slavishly follow Pieter's model, but I do think it is an important communication tool you should continue using.

Best of luck Michal. Never forget, we are right behind you (no, not with a knife!) and look forward to what's coming next for Wikidot.

We will be presenting ideas to our Community and we are counting on your help and creative feedback.

I hope you really do seek and consider community feedback. That wasn't happening much before Pieter came along, and it would be a terrible shame if the collaboration that has been built up since is reduced. I disagreed with Pieter vehemently on countless occasions, but there's no question in my mind that the way he both engaged with the community, and fairly considered their feedback was unprecedented for wikidot, AND that brought unprecedented benefit to Wikidot as a organization.

I wish you luck michal, but I can't imagine how you'll both maintain the pace of productive development you've held in recent months (which I commend you and the rest of Wikidot's dev team for) AND engage with the community at all in order to benefit from our ideas. I look forward to hearing your plans.

… with your new responsibilities. I expect all will go well based on all the work you have done to date!

Hey michal,

Do you plan to continue using this blog?

The way I see it, the best way to continue with the community interaction is to focus on:

• Continuing the use of this blog
• Using the weneed list
• Using the bug reporting wiki
• Frequenting the community site //forums//
• And the project site forums

As I once told Pieter, I look forward to reading the blog posts here. That will not change, even with a different author.

Welcome Michal…

I just hope you will be as omnipresent as Pieter was… It was really nice to know that if you have a problem it will be solved, or at least attended in a matter of hours….

If I was Michal, I maybe hired a reliable person to communicate with the community

I agree. I have long thought that Wikidot should have a Comms Manager. Fortunately that became much less crucial in the last few months due to Pieter's regular blogs, forum presence and general good communications.

I really wish Michal the best and hope that he is able to juggle the development work with the very important role of communicating. We shall see, and we do need to give him some time to settle back in to this role. But I suspect that the need for a Comms Manager has re-surfaced. It would need to be someone who can also communicate with Michal and has an "in" to the development team, so it's not an easy person to find.