Also try http://slimwiki.com
Show HN: Torchpad – The simplest way to make a wiki
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Re: Show HN: Torchpad – The simplest way to make a wiki
#32When I'm forced to put things into wikis or content management systems, I usually edit text in my favourite text editor (via the "It's all Text" extension or similar). Unfortunately the javascript-based editor in this wiki is too clever for that extension to work. Fortunately a dance involving Ctrl-a, Ctrl-c, edit elsewhere and copy back, and Ctrl-v does work. So I guess I wouldn't find it too annoying if I had to us…
You're right, same with edit-with-emacs on chrome. Shame, the editor looks nice but I definitely wouldn't want to give up my own editor functions for it.
Re: Show HN: Torchpad – The simplest way to make a wiki
#33The landing page is pretty, but can't try without signup, walking away...
I took a chance on signing up even though it was my instinct to run... my reward was the next screen:
"We're sorry but something went wrong"
That's an immediate double fail on the "simplest way to make a wiki" headline.
Re: Show HN: Torchpad – The simplest way to make a wiki
#34Do you guys have a repo? I'd like to see how this works first. I need to know more about the permissions system, specifically.
It isn't open source. But we will consider for it in the future :)
That's a +1 from me, I'd love an open-source version for self-hosting. I'd additionally be happy to pay for the "licence to self host" or something silly like that as long as I can see the code somehow (which is a big deal for me).
Re: Show HN: Torchpad – The simplest way to make a wiki
#35Pretty cool!, landing page is so amazing <3
Re: Show HN: Torchpad – The simplest way to make a wiki
#36Nice MVP. I like the idea of using git behind it, that is novel and makes 'owning' the data easy. Could be the killer feature. Other comments: - what is with the speckled grey textured background? Oy, are we back in 1997? Terrible! - if I actually used this, I'd want to brand the page a bit to make it look how I want, I didn't see any template to edit. - multiple owners and having users there is very cool, as is logg…
The idea of a wiki using a Git back-end is certainly not novel:
Gollum: https://github.com/gollum/gollum
Gitit: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/gitit-0.1.1
Git-wiki: https://github.com/sr/git-wiki
WiGit: http://el-tramo.be/wigit/
etc.
Re: Show HN: Torchpad – The simplest way to make a wiki
#37Also try http://slimwiki.com
What's the export format, do you know?
Re: Show HN: Torchpad – The simplest way to make a wiki
#38Really like the syntax highlighting in the Markdown editor! Is this an open source lib, or something custom?
Re: Show HN: Torchpad – The simplest way to make a wiki
#39Really like the syntax highlighting in the Markdown editor! Is this an open source lib, or something custom?
Hello, It's an open source lib called http://codemirror.net/
But we add a lot of custom features on it.
Re: Show HN: Torchpad – The simplest way to make a wiki
#40When I'm forced to put things into wikis or content management systems, I usually edit text in my favourite text editor (via the "It's all Text" extension or similar). Unfortunately the javascript-based editor in this wiki is too clever for that extension to work. Fortunately a dance involving Ctrl-a, Ctrl-c, edit elsewhere and copy back, and Ctrl-v does work. So I guess I wouldn't find it too annoying if I had to us…
Now if this was tied to something like a personal Github page I could then just push my changes within my own text editor and shell. Now that would be nice.