Devs, pro tip: if you call a file "minified", please minify it. Your main.min.js is a whopping 4.7mb of un-minified JS.
True, but it's less 1M compressed. Including the other static files, it's still less than 1M for the entire app.
Show HN: Kobble – Notes app that saves directly to GitHub
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That's precisely why we use GitHub. It's unlikely to be gone tomorrow. No data is stored on our servers. In fact, we don't even see it. The data is transferred directly from your browser to GitHub.
Weird that everything is saved as a gist. I feel like it would make more sense to store them in one repo. I went looking for the notes I created in github, and found a bunch of flat gists. ??
Public and private repos are coming soon, via GitHub Integrations.
Re: Show HN: Kobble – Notes app that saves directly to GitHub
#133I think I'm able to view all other gists. If I open the Gist on https://gist.github.com/ then go to the original gist at 'kobble-git/channel-groups.json' I can navigate to all the forks and see data for other users.
I think we assumed that GitHub users would know that gists are not private. We added a clarification to the onboard slideshow. Support for public and private repos is coming, via GitHub Integrations.
People probably would expect private gists to be reasonably private. They normally are, if you don't publish a global index of them...
This is not users misunderstanding how gists work.
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#134Re: Show HN: Kobble – Notes app that saves directly to GitHub
#135I use Zim Wiki. Also, it has version control plugin, so you can store your notes on the GitHub or BitBucket or GitLab if you want. I prefer plain old backups.
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#136Re: Show HN: Kobble – Notes app that saves directly to GitHub
#137I think I'm able to view all other gists. If I open the Gist on https://gist.github.com/ then go to the original gist at 'kobble-git/channel-groups.json' I can navigate to all the forks and see data for other users.
I think we assumed that GitHub users would know that gists are not private. We added a clarification to the onboard slideshow. Support for public and private repos is coming, via GitHub Integrations.
I quote from your website: "Don't worry if you don't know what GitHub is, you only need to create an account." You don't appear to make any assumptions that your users understand that their notes will be published and readable by anyone on the internet.
Furthermore, your clarification: "Currently, Kobble stores all user data in secret GitHub Gists, under your account. Secret gists are not private." does not help because it does not explicitly state the fact that notes will be readable by anyone on the internet.
Re: Show HN: Kobble – Notes app that saves directly to GitHub
#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think we assumed that GitHub users would know that gists are not private. We added a clarification to the onboard slideshow. Support for public and private repos is coming, via GitHub Integrations.
I quote from your website: "Don't worry if you don't know what GitHub is, you only need to create an account." You don't appear to make any assumptions that your users understand that their notes will be published and readable by anyone on the internet. Furthermore, your clarification: "Currently, Kobble stores all user data in secret GitHub Gists, under your account. Secret gists are not private." does not help beca…
It really sounds like the creators of the app didn't know that anyone could read the Gists...
Re: Show HN: Kobble – Notes app that saves directly to GitHub
#139Re: Show HN: Kobble – Notes app that saves directly to GitHub
#140All this is is a presentation with a boatload of text and absolutely NO indication of what the app looks like or how you go about using it.
Even before i saw the note about the security issues i wouldn't click on try because why should i invest my time in trying it. I have no clue what it does beyond saving markdown files to github. I've got plenty of markdown apps that I like quite a bit, and uploading my notes to github is not something i've been going "damn i wish i had an app that would do that" because anyone who knows about github already knows how to commit their files and push them up...
doing it in gists is even worse (ignoring security aspects) because at least with my manually managed notes their organized in folders, browsable, greppable, etc.