I want to turn this into a mac app. Was not expecting java.
HackPad is a fork of EtherPad, which was all JavaScript on Java! It uses the Rhino JavaScript engine. Believe it or not.
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#32Another cool, live EtherPad fork which has existed for a long time (anonymous pads, w/o source): http://piratepad.net/front-page/
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#33Nice of them to put it there. Two points. 1. My confidence in the continued existence of Hackpad is falling by the day and it saddens me as it is where I keep all my stuff. 2. I really would like to get access to the Dropbox Notes beta to see if it is a direct continuation of Hackpad. Seems it is almost impossible to get access to it though.
DB Notes is clearly a spiritual continuation, and some things are directly continued (fonts, limited styling, minimal composition area), but it's also got features that are distinct from the original HackPad, like sidebar comment threads (somewhat like Medium's comments). It definitely shares a lot, but it's not just "hackpad with the dropbox logo"
Sidebar comment threads is a really good move. I have many hackpads destroyed by inline comments.
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#34Signing in with Google requests to view your contacts. Come on, really?
Hmm. Not only do they make unnecessary, irrelevant, and generally overreaching demands on your privacy, but you get modded down for objecting to it. Sounds like a great product. Where do I sign up? Absolutely nothing makes me reach for the back button faster than a "X requests access to Y" notification that doesn't explain exactly why X needs access to Y, and what X will do with its newly-granted access.
For ephemeral collaboration, just use an semi-anonymous EtherPad fork like PiratePad.
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#35clicking "Take a test drive" link on hackpad main site results in "Refused to execute inline event handler because it violates the following Content Security Policy directive: "script-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline' " in Chrome
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#38Nice of them to put it there. Two points. 1. My confidence in the continued existence of Hackpad is falling by the day and it saddens me as it is where I keep all my stuff. 2. I really would like to get access to the Dropbox Notes beta to see if it is a direct continuation of Hackpad. Seems it is almost impossible to get access to it though.
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#39Nice of them to put it there. Two points. 1. My confidence in the continued existence of Hackpad is falling by the day and it saddens me as it is where I keep all my stuff. 2. I really would like to get access to the Dropbox Notes beta to see if it is a direct continuation of Hackpad. Seems it is almost impossible to get access to it though.
Check out https://slimwiki.com
I really wish that, someday, I could click on a cool link on Hacker News for a service that's personal document storage and syncing and, near the bottom of the page, would read the text "host this on your own server using [these instructions]."
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
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I really wish that, someday, I could click on a cool link on Hacker News for a service that's personal document storage and syncing and, near the bottom of the page, would read the text "host this on your own server using [these instructions]."
I feel this same way. Unfortunately, everyone seems to think otherwise.