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Re: Witeboard

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

lovasoa wrote: post #80
Stratoscope wrote: post #20

I wrote "Hello World!" on witeboard.com using the active pen on my ThinkPad Yoga. It couldn't keep up with my writing and made a mess of it. Out of curiosity, I tried ziteboard.com (which came up in a search for "online whiteboard"), and it rendered my handwriting perfectly. Here are the results from the two sites: https://imgur.com/a/nCKMEKE I repeated the experiment on my Galaxy Note 8 with its active pen, with sim…

Could you also give feedback on https://wbo.ophir.dev ? Contrarily to the other mentioned before, it is opensource [1], and you can easily host your own instance if you don't like the idea of sharing your whiteboards on a random server on the internet. [1] https://github.com/lovasoa/whitebophir

> https://wbo.ophir.dev

Good show!

It's impossible to get something exactly like Apple Pencil/iPad Pro, in a shared Web-based tool, but this comes close.

Re: Witeboard

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Post by agys »

lovasoa wrote: post #80
Stratoscope wrote: post #20

I wrote "Hello World!" on witeboard.com using the active pen on my ThinkPad Yoga. It couldn't keep up with my writing and made a mess of it. Out of curiosity, I tried ziteboard.com (which came up in a search for "online whiteboard"), and it rendered my handwriting perfectly. Here are the results from the two sites: https://imgur.com/a/nCKMEKE I repeated the experiment on my Galaxy Note 8 with its active pen, with sim…

Could you also give feedback on https://wbo.ophir.dev ? Contrarily to the other mentioned before, it is opensource [1], and you can easily host your own instance if you don't like the idea of sharing your whiteboards on a random server on the internet. [1] https://github.com/lovasoa/whitebophir

This one is excellent! Thank you for sharing it.

Re: Witeboard

#93

Post by Multicomp »

lovasoa wrote: post #90
librarydance wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Awesomely responsive, great sharing model, very easy to use. Drawbacks I saw (for my own use patterns): - Not great for use with a pencil-based tablet: pencil vs. hand or other pointer are not distinguished. I don't want my finger to draw, I want only my pencil to draw. - Couldn't find how to permanently set a different size for pencil vs. eraser. I want a huge eraser (and a large eraser didn't work too well, indepen…

The clear page functionality has been asked before, but I'm not sure I want to implement it. It seems useful when you are alone on your board, but when there are dozens of participants, you don't want a single one to be able to clear everything in a single button press, be it by mistake or maliciously.

Maybe add a confirmation dialog and clear the page while showing a message as to who cleared it?

If you already have an undo system then you could push the pre-cleared state to it as well.

it's easy to make armchair feature request suggestions when I haven't even so much just looked at the code, so I will end by saying good work on having a tool that people actually use!

Re: Witeboard

#95

Post by YetAnotherNick »

Google has not much known product in google docs suite, called jamboard which works really well for this usecase and has tablet apps which makes it very good to use with apple pencil.

Benefits over this include better tools, better sharing and security, and I am guess stability and scalability.

Re: Witeboard

#96

Post by Multicomp »

hoyd wrote: post #19
monoideism wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can get a decent little drawing tablet for $30 these days. You'd probably spend half of that in the cost of pens over the device's lifetime. They're no longer ultra-expensive specialized equipment.

> You can get a decent little drawing tablet for $30 these days. You'd probably spend half of that in the cost of pens over the device's lifetime. They're no longer ultra-expensive specialized equipment. Can you suggest a model?

Huion H620 is a 4:3 tablet that is old enough to be pretty cheap. Their 16:9 tablets are just fine at least when I get the $40-60 ones.

Osu! Style drawing tablets are also a thing but they are small, maybe you want to spring for a slightly bigger tablet.

Re: Witeboard

#97

Post by joelellis »

jodrellblank wrote: post #26
hoyd wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> You can get a decent little drawing tablet for $30 these days. You'd probably spend half of that in the cost of pens over the device's lifetime. They're no longer ultra-expensive specialized equipment. Can you suggest a model?

Not Wacom https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22247292

Well if you're on linux a second-hand one would be great, given you don't have their drivers (and you do have open ones). I have a Graphire3 6x8.

Re: Witeboard

#98

Post by dgellow »

Stratoscope wrote: post #20

I wrote "Hello World!" on witeboard.com using the active pen on my ThinkPad Yoga. It couldn't keep up with my writing and made a mess of it. Out of curiosity, I tried ziteboard.com (which came up in a search for "online whiteboard"), and it rendered my handwriting perfectly. Here are the results from the two sites: https://imgur.com/a/nCKMEKE I repeated the experiment on my Galaxy Note 8 with its active pen, with sim…

Same experience using a Surface + Surface Pen.

Re: Witeboard

#99

Post by lweber »

I'm running Linux Mint 19 on my XPS15 from 2019. Opening this page in Firefox gives me an instant crash and reboot.

I tried 2 times. Won't use again.

Re: Witeboard

#100

Post by barry27 »

irskep wrote: post #48
Stratoscope wrote: post #20

I wrote "Hello World!" on witeboard.com using the active pen on my ThinkPad Yoga. It couldn't keep up with my writing and made a mess of it. Out of curiosity, I tried ziteboard.com (which came up in a search for "online whiteboard"), and it rendered my handwriting perfectly. Here are the results from the two sites: https://imgur.com/a/nCKMEKE I repeated the experiment on my Galaxy Note 8 with its active pen, with sim…

While you're trying things out, would you mind testing https://browserboard.com ? It's a little thing I made similar to these tools. It's not commercial, I just want to make sure it works well.

its much better than the app in the original post.

but its SUPER weird how the effect of drawing or erasing only appears on mouse up. like super unusable weird.

in my opinion.

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