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Re: Witeboard

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Post by numpad0 »

Stratoscope wrote: post #64
chrismorgan wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My first three tests of anything like this are: 1. Does it keep up with rapid movement? (If something fails this, it’s a total non-starter.) 2. Does the eraser on the back of my pen work? (If not, it’s very frustrating and a very bad sign.) 3. Does pressure sensitivity vary the thickness of lines? (I just find it’s a bad sign if something lacks this—tools that support pressure sensitivity seem to pretty consistently…

Those are great insights. Have you found any online collaborative whiteboard tool that does what you want here? It is so frustrating compared to native apps where low latency, pressure sensitivity, and the pen eraser are table stakes.

More of an input for developers than actual suggestion but collaborative art boards like MagicalDraw[1] aren't new among digital artists and they're quite robust

1: https://draw.kuku.lu/index.php

Re: Witeboard

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Post by chris_st »

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…

For whatever it's worth, I tried both Witeboard and Ziteboard with my iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, and they both worked great, tracking superbly.

Re: Witeboard

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Post by chris_st »

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 worked great with my iPad Pro and Apple Pencil. Well done!

Re: Witeboard

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Post by chris_st »

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.

Tried it with my iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, and it worked great. Well done!

Re: Witeboard

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Post by bonestamp2 »

chrismorgan wrote: post #108
Hoasi wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mr.doob's multiuser sketchpad has the essentials as far as real-time sharing and drawing capacity. It would work very well in private mode: you could share a link to start recording a live session. https://multiuser-sketchpad.glitch.me https://mrdoob.com/#/125/multiuser_sketchpad

As soon as I put my pen to the surface and made a big sweeping movement, it popped up five or ten alerts in a row, all reading “please, draw slowly”, and broke (the socket disconnected and stayed disconnected). Um. When I drew things small, this didn’t happen, but it was as badly broken as Browserboard in that it wasn’t registering the first (and maybe last?) short time of each stroke, which makes it completely usele…

What is the best one you've come across?

Re: Witeboard

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Post by contravariant »

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

I like that you can easily share a private board between people, unfortunately it didn't seem to work well with my mouse. Something about the postprocessing messed up every single line I was trying to draw, which made it impossible to write anything legible.

Edit: it's quite a bit better in chrome, but still not perfect.

Re: Witeboard

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Post by irskep »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #84
irskep wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Tested on my Dell Latitude 5290 2-in-1 (AKA. my sidearm), with Dell's active pen, running Firefox. Works surprisingly well, it's the first web whiteboard that's actually usable with the pen. Congratulations on getting this right! One minor inconvenience: when I draw with the pen, it doesn't show the line I'm drawing until I lift the pen back.

I think you found a bug! I didn't build any special support for pens, and it sounds like something's wrong here.

Re: Witeboard

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Post by agrafix »

solidasparagus wrote: post #6

I love that this exist, but the core problem with remote whiteboards is that everyone can write something legible when using a marker on a whiteboard, but it's way harder with a mouse/trackpad. It would be nice to have some features that made it easier - the features I really miss from apps I use to create diagrams are basic shapes like rectangles and the ability to select and move/resize/copy existing drawing. Witeb…

Shameless plug: we built https://board.new with “hold shift to draw” which makes drawing with a mouse much easier.

Re: Witeboard

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Post by tekacs »

agrafix wrote: post #119
solidasparagus wrote: post #6

I love that this exist, but the core problem with remote whiteboards is that everyone can write something legible when using a marker on a whiteboard, but it's way harder with a mouse/trackpad. It would be nice to have some features that made it easier - the features I really miss from apps I use to create diagrams are basic shapes like rectangles and the ability to select and move/resize/copy existing drawing. Witeb…

Shameless plug: we built https://board.new with “hold shift to draw” which makes drawing with a mouse much easier.

That's really interesting -- it genuinely does make drawing with my mouse far easier!

I was trying to write with my mouse on the various whiteboards mentioned above and getting a garbled mess, but it's distinctly legible using your approach. :)

https://letsboard.co/boards/I0EGPMpLgZMa6HI3oQYhZHowjL32Q0eI...

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