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Re: Open Source Stash – Privacy-focused, powerful, secure open-source alternatives

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Also kind of ironic to show a big picture of an iPhone prominently on the frontpage. You can't even install your own software on it without rooting it or getting a devkit. Perhaps showing a pinephone or a Librem 5 would be more fitting.

Also, the screen behind it features MacOS. Which, needless to say, is also hostile to free software.

It is not, though? That makes no sense.

Re: Open Source Stash – Privacy-focused, powerful, secure open-source alternatives

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Also kind of ironic to show a big picture of an iPhone prominently on the frontpage. You can't even install your own software on it without rooting it or getting a devkit. Perhaps showing a pinephone or a Librem 5 would be more fitting.

Not only that, but also a Mac, both of them featuring only propietary software. The idea is great, the design should be redone IMO.

What about a Mac "features only proprietary software"?

Re: Open Source Stash – Privacy-focused, powerful, secure open-source alternatives

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Why does this site require JS to display content at all?

Modern webpages don't load unless they have at least 5 years access to your medical records. This page is the attempt of a non-coder, who believes that Open Source is an ethical (and privacy-aware) choice, to share resources with other people. As a non-coder, they are only exposed to the trash tools that we as programmers give them now, hence the page is as it is, no worse than the average restaurant's site. Hopefully it is successful and eventually the author gets help in simplifying the code.

Also hopefully, over time, they gain a preference for Free Software since they seem to prefer Open Source for ethical reasons. It's a point of pride for Open Source that it asks no ethical questions; only because of that it conforms to the ethical stance of Free Software because it's willing to conform to the ethical stance of any distributor.

Re: Open Source Stash – Privacy-focused, powerful, secure open-source alternatives

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Why does this site require JS to display content at all?

Modern webpages don't load unless they have at least 5 years access to your medical records. This page is the attempt of a non-coder, who believes that Open Source is an ethical (and privacy-aware) choice, to share resources with other people. As a non-coder, they are only exposed to the trash tools that we as programmers give them now, hence the page is as it is, no worse than the average restaurant's site. Hopefull…

As a 40 y/o guy it makes me sad how people are rediscovering server side rendering (see the recent "HTML over the wire" post here on HN) but I guess it is what it is.

> Modern webpages don't load unless they have at least 5 years access to your medical records.

Made me laugh, thanks.

Re: Open Source Stash – Privacy-focused, powerful, secure open-source alternatives

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Open Source Stash seems to be opinionated (for lack of a better word) and there doesn't seem to be a way to submit projects to it in the public (like a pull-request for example where a discussion can be had) but only privately to the maintainer (ironic, for a webpage maintaining a collection of OSS software)? Also, I need to allow countless third-party services (uMatrix puts the count at 51) to even make the website…

"Also, I need to allow countless third-party services (uMatrix puts the at 51) to even make the website work." This "website" is nothing more than a spreadsheet transformed into a dumpster fire of gratuitous Javascript and third party requests with https://spreadsimple.com . https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CwEoXiapYtYiU5TvYrVs... For the raw XML, https://doc-10-7k-sheets.googleusercontent.com/export/l5l039...…

HTML instead of PDF:

   https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CwEoXiapYtYiU5TvYrVsDmVN7P0l6i-WENjbWh3o9qU/edit

Re: Open Source Stash – Privacy-focused, powerful, secure open-source alternatives

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Nope. Most alternatives like services miss on a very important point. Alternatives do not have the same features and there should be a thorough comparison for end users not to waste their time.

Cool idea, but no alternative site I've seen has told me which competitor to X has dark mode and markdown.

Disclaimer: I'm maintainer of Wekan.

Wekan https://wekan.github.io has:

- Dark Theme at => Board Settings => Color => Dark. Although, only for per board, not as Global theme yet.

- Markdown and GitHub emojis https://github.com/wekan/wekan/wiki/Emoji

About comparisons:

- Yes, comparisons are very time consuming to make. Most comparisons at Internet are out of date, usually new features are added to software all the time. I also have not found up-to-date comparisons site. Comparisons pages can also get very long, some kind of summary would be nice, if possible. I should sometime try to update this out-of-date comparisons page https://github.com/wekan/wekan/wiki/Wekan-vs-Trello-vs-Resty... , after creating that there has been many changes.

- For example, Wekan has some same features that Trello also has. Wekan has some features Trello does not have, like Open Source, self-hosting, Swimlanes, etc. Trello has some features Wekan does not have, like burndown charts.

Re: Open Source Stash – Privacy-focused, powerful, secure open-source alternatives

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Cool idea, but no alternative site I've seen has told me which competitor to X has dark mode and markdown.

Disclaimer: I'm maintainer of Wekan. Wekan https://wekan.github.io has: - Dark Theme at => Board Settings => Color => Dark. Although, only for per board, not as Global theme yet. - Markdown and GitHub emojis https://github.com/wekan/wekan/wiki/Emoji About comparisons: - Yes, comparisons are very time consuming to make. Most comparisons at Internet are out of date, usually new features are added to software all the ti…

It seems saving HN comment above removed unicode, like at above: Dark Theme at (Hamburger icon) => (Settings Icon) Board Settings => Color => Dark.

Re: Open Source Stash – Privacy-focused, powerful, secure open-source alternatives

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"Also, I need to allow countless third-party services (uMatrix puts the at 51) to even make the website work." This "website" is nothing more than a spreadsheet transformed into a dumpster fire of gratuitous Javascript and third party requests with https://spreadsimple.com . https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CwEoXiapYtYiU5TvYrVs... For the raw XML, https://doc-10-7k-sheets.googleusercontent.com/export/l5l039...…

HTML instead of PDF: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CwEoXiapYtYiU5TvYrVsDmVN7P0l6i-WENjbWh3o9qU/edit

Thanks! Clickable link:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CwEoXiapYtYiU5TvYrVs...

Re: Open Source Stash – Privacy-focused, powerful, secure open-source alternatives

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HTML instead of PDF: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CwEoXiapYtYiU5TvYrVsDmVN7P0l6i-WENjbWh3o9qU/edit

Thanks! Clickable link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CwEoXiapYtYiU5TvYrVs...

Maybe it's just me but this points to a PDF export. The /edit suffix is getting changed to /export?format=pdf. The "non-clickable" link points to /edit which gives me an HTML version.

Re: Open Source Stash – Privacy-focused, powerful, secure open-source alternatives

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Thanks! Clickable link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CwEoXiapYtYiU5TvYrVs...

Maybe it's just me but this points to a PDF export. The /edit suffix is getting changed to /export?format=pdf. The "non-clickable" link points to /edit which gives me an HTML version.

I just clicked it in Chrome and Mobile Safari and they both bring me to a regular Google Sheets web page. I tried in incognito mode too and it was the same.

What browser are you using?

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