It seems like they are not available in all locations; my Russian Zip code is getting rejected. That's a shame cuz I literally just pressed the purchase button without reading the changelog, that's how much of a fan I am.
Typora 1.0
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Re: Typora 1.0
#52Been asking them for a way to pay for years. $15 seems really modest.
Re: Typora 1.0
#53They clearly detail that an internet connection is required to activate[0]. Whenever I read such statements, I always find myself wondering: What's their plan for when the product is discontinued? It's a "when", not an "if", after all. [0] https://support.typora.io/activation/
if I understood correctly, activation is a one-time process. So you buy the license and then activate the product and then you have it, period. Since you purchased the licence from this very server, there's no point in worrying it'll be down, except you purchased it like 3yrs ago and would like to activate it now.
People occasionally wipe and reinstall their computers from scratch, and buy new computers.
Re: Typora 1.0
#54I have used Typora, it's alright — but it's definitely no Obsidian[^1] Typora is very limited in terms of plugins / customisability — although it's standard feature set might be enough Obsidian is my new Emacs, it rules my life through some plugins I've written for myself, it can be a simple focus driven markdown editor like Typora if I need it to be, or a full knowledge suite like Notion and the likes of that all wh…
Typora is a markdown reader/writer not a note taking or knowledge base application. It's strange for you to compare them like that.
Re: Typora 1.0
#55They clearly detail that an internet connection is required to activate[0]. Whenever I read such statements, I always find myself wondering: What's their plan for when the product is discontinued? It's a "when", not an "if", after all. [0] https://support.typora.io/activation/
And as a user, what's your plan to keep being able to access your notes? I feel that if you don't control your data, then you don't have your data. A license that might evaporate means your data exists at somebody else's whim. I'd move it out of that system fast.
That's a valid concern for most DRM-encumbered software, but Typora in particular saves in a format that other programs can read.
Re: Typora 1.0
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
Linking to your own blog isn’t disallowed, and in fact “write a blog post about the thing and then link to that” is the right way to handle this. I think the rule that may be tripping you up is “Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff occasionally, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.” That rule is focused on avoiding self-promotion. For example, if you’re worki…
Thanks. In that case I think the rule is mostly fine. At least it would be if there was better options for micro-blogging on the spur of the moment ;-)
I hope that last sentence was sarcastic. I fucking detest microblogging. Oh wow, thanks Seth Godin! Your trite and clichéd 1-paragraph was so non-obvious and original! Definitely not something anyone else has ever thought of before! And thank you from sparing me all nuance, context, and the need for fleshing out an argument in any detail! No no, just what I needed this morning was an even lower signal to noise.
Re: Typora 1.0
#57I love using Typora. My favorite feature is the mathjax support. It has replaced latex for me for grad school assignments and saves a lot of time. Great to see that they won’t be going the subscription route.
> ...My favorite feature is the mathjax support.
I too was drawn by this feature at first. But then discovered that with pages and pages of formulas, the rendering gets too sluggish which also impares the editing. So I had to disable the rendering just to edit some formulas.
While I still see a use for Typora, especially due to its convenient export into .doc, I'm already considering alternatives.
Re: Typora 1.0
#58We're asked, over and over again, by the guidelines and by moderator comments, not to editorialize titles like this. This is a particularly egregious example; the submission is simply the release notes for the 1.0 version of an editor called Typora, and this submission should be called "Typora 1.0".
Fixed now. Thanks!
Submitted title was "Typora 1.0 needs a license code to use" - which was definitely editorialized. From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."
Re: Typora 1.0
#59We're asked, over and over again, by the guidelines and by moderator comments, not to editorialize titles like this. This is a particularly egregious example; the submission is simply the release notes for the 1.0 version of an editor called Typora, and this submission should be called "Typora 1.0".
How does one post a link when the only interesting thing about it is buried or non-obvious? I think linking to our own blog posts or tweets is also disallowed (?) so we have to wait for someone else to blog about it? I've never quite understood how to solve this puzzle as it means a reasonably large class of pertinent information is impossible to post to HN.
As TobTobXX said, one option is to post the link and then add a comment explaining what you think is interesting.
If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's fine, but the place to do that is in a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
Re: Typora 1.0
#60I love using Typora. My favorite feature is the mathjax support. It has replaced latex for me for grad school assignments and saves a lot of time. Great to see that they won’t be going the subscription route.
That's quite a common feature in Markdown editors: retext, apostrophe, ghostwriter, notable, etc all support latex for equations.