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Dear Liangbing,

Thank you very much for your important questions and comments. In addition to @RalfBarkow I want to add a few more points to the discussion:

  1. Regarding the number of people using DMX and the forum I cannot exactly tell you why there are still so few people engaged. But I am happy to see that with @RalfBarkow there is at least a second person. :slight_smile: As DMX is still in the BETA stage, more people should join when we will continuously foster our marketing activities within the next months. Also you and other people can of course help us spread the word about DMX and invite more people to use it and join the forum.

    As @RalfBarkow already stated the interface of the DMX webclient is different from TheBrain, as it is our belief that all arrangements on the topicmap should be intentionally made by the user in opposite to automated by the machine. @jri already gave a more in detail reply regarding this topic in https://forum.dmx.berlin/t/i-have-some-suggestions/ . Nevertheless the DMX plugin architecture allows you to develop a different type of visualization that might fit better to your own expectations and needs.

  2. DMX is fully suitable for large scale organizations. Depending on the scenario however it might be necessary to make certain adjustments and more usecase specific optimizations.

  3. Also in reference to point 1. a topicmap should not be used to show everything. To our understanding very large topicmaps become mostly useless, as no one will be able to decode all that information with reasonable effort. Instead of creating very large maps we recommend to split the information into several more specific topicmaps with a certain focus, or as we say: situation based, which means reflecting a certain work situation, detail or question. This is also more adequate to our cognitive abilities meaning the limits of our human brains.

    Note that in DMX topics and associations exist independent from topicmaps. The same topic/association can be visible in several topicmaps at the same time. In DMX a topicmap acts as a representation of a specific (individual or workgroup) work situation. And, in contrast to e.g. TheBrain, in DMX you can keep (and share) several topicmaps – one for each work situation.

  4. The issue is raised in Auto pan topicmap while draw assoc (#178) · Issues · dmx-platform / dmx-platform · GitLab. In addition to what @RalfBarkow already suggested, another work around might be to zoom out a little.

  5. In DMX 5.0-beta-2 released @jri already gave a reply to this issue. At the moment our focus is on publishing a stable release within the next couple of months and we need to prioritize. File upload is not part of the release plan for now. We might work on it after the stable release or earlier, if it becomes an urgent requirement within a client project.

  6. Please see points 2. and 3.

I hope this is of any help!