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Re: Show HN: Airborn – Private Google Docs Alternative

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Post by Beltiras »

twiss wrote: post #24
tylerhou wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just curious (and no negative implications whatsoever): is "we made it so that only one person at a time can type in a paragraph. No longer can that annoying classmate delete what you just typed" code for "operational transforms are hard to implement, especially without a source of truth?"

Yes and no :) I did indeed not implement OT, but it's also a true story that I would create a Google Doc and share it, nobody knows what to write, I type a sentence, and my classmates delete it as a joke, to mess with me :) But yeah, feedback on the collaboration is welcome. Do you think editing one sentence with multiple people is necessary, and if so why? And on the other end of the spectrum, Word-style edit reques…

Suggest mode solves the problem elegantly. Google docs has had this for a while.

Re: Show HN: Airborn – Private Google Docs Alternative

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Post by twiss »

arkadiyt wrote: post #163
twiss wrote: post #2

Hi HN! I made this. It has bulk import from Google Docs ;) thanks to a feature request from HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15478479

Minor bug report: registering with a 64 character password fails. 32 characters seems to work fine. Also a feature request: please add the ability for me to delete my account/data from your servers.

It works fine for me with a 64 character password. Maybe the server errored out randomly that time. What browser are you using?

If you shoot me an email with your username, I'll delete your account and files manually.

Re: Show HN: Airborn – Private Google Docs Alternative

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Post by dingo_bat »

akx wrote: post #167
arkadiyt wrote: post #163

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Minor bug report: registering with a 64 character password fails. 32 characters seems to work fine. Also a feature request: please add the ability for me to delete my account/data from your servers.

I wouldn't call that minor. Sounds like there's something odd about the way passwords are handled. :/

Another oddity is a 64 character password.

Re: Show HN: Airborn – Private Google Docs Alternative

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Post by bassviola »

pmontra wrote: post #157
twiss wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's no permanent paragraph ownership in Airborn OS either, but it's locked for about 10 seconds when you edit a paragraph. Or are you saying that the two editors would be editing the same paragraph at the same time?

I use Google Docs only for work. It never happened that we inadvertently deleted each other's work but it happens that we have cursors in the same paragraph. Maybe there are multiple reasons for that. One is that we're not in the business of trolling coworkers and losing time, quite the opposite. However I can understand that when I was little that would be fun sometimes. Another reason is that we often use another c…

Or, you could just wait the ten seconds the lock lasts.

Re: Show HN: Airborn – Private Google Docs Alternative

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Post by lorenzhs »

bengotow wrote: post #18

This looks great! Minor nits: In what way is this an OS? Also in the US, Airborn (e.g. to be in the air) is spelled "Airborne" and it's difficult to type it without the trailing 'e' without spellcheck fixing it automagically.

To me, the domain looks a bit like it could be an airline's: Air Bornos

Re: Show HN: Airborn – Private Google Docs Alternative

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Post by dandare »

twiss wrote: post #2

Hi HN! I made this. It has bulk import from Google Docs ;) thanks to a feature request from HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15478479

Oh my gosh, this looks like months of work, even if the editors are OS, the beautiful homepage, the billing, replying to emails and keeping everything up...

Re: Show HN: Airborn – Private Google Docs Alternative

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Post by piyush_soni »

twiss wrote: post #2

Hi HN! I made this. It has bulk import from Google Docs ;) thanks to a feature request from HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15478479

Bug: Select some text, press delete. It doesn't delete anything, or deletes just one character at the cursor. It should deleted all selected text.

Re: Show HN: Airborn – Private Google Docs Alternative

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Post by twiss »

piyush_soni wrote: post #178
twiss wrote: post #2

Hi HN! I made this. It has bulk import from Google Docs ;) thanks to a feature request from HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15478479

Bug: Select some text, press delete. It doesn't delete anything, or deletes just one character at the cursor. It should deleted all selected text.

What browser and OS are you using? It works for me.

Re: Show HN: Airborn – Private Google Docs Alternative

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Post by twiss »

dandare wrote: post #177
twiss wrote: post #2

Hi HN! I made this. It has bulk import from Google Docs ;) thanks to a feature request from HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15478479

Oh my gosh, this looks like months of work, even if the editors are OS, the beautiful homepage, the billing, replying to emails and keeping everything up...

Thanks a lot! It has indeed been years of work, and while the Firetext editor existed as a mobile Firefox OS app, a big chunk of work has still gone into it. The presentations app is closer to how it already was, though.
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