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Show HN: BookStack – An open source wiki platform and alternative to Confluence

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Re: Show HN: BookStack – An open source wiki platform and alternative to Confluence

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Post by ssddanbrown »

I've been working on BookStack for over 6 years now, learning a lot about open source project maintainership during that time. Originally developed it while looking for a documentation system for my mixed-technical-skill workplace. Wanted something easy to use without having to get finance involved when increasing our user count.

With Confluence backing away from their self-hosted offerings, hopefully many will find BookStack useful. It's not supposed to be a direct replacement, and the design & content structure is quite opinionated, but it can serve many of the same use-cases as Confluence had served.

Re: Show HN: BookStack – An open source wiki platform and alternative to Confluence

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Post by 1cvmask »

ssddanbrown wrote: post #2

I've been working on BookStack for over 6 years now, learning a lot about open source project maintainership during that time. Originally developed it while looking for a documentation system for my mixed-technical-skill workplace. Wanted something easy to use without having to get finance involved when increasing our user count. With Confluence backing away from their self-hosted offerings, hopefully many will find…

We could potentially add passwordless MFA from saas pass to your project. Good luck with it.

Re: Show HN: BookStack – An open source wiki platform and alternative to Confluence

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Post by hardwaresofton »

ssddanbrown wrote: post #2

I've been working on BookStack for over 6 years now, learning a lot about open source project maintainership during that time. Originally developed it while looking for a documentation system for my mixed-technical-skill workplace. Wanted something easy to use without having to get finance involved when increasing our user count. With Confluence backing away from their self-hosted offerings, hopefully many will find…

Bookstack looks like an amazing feat of engineering — it’s overwhelmingly the wiki I want to deploy given other F/OSS options. just today I was showing it to a friend and it is impressive how clean and considered it is. Thanks for maintaining and improving this project

Re: Show HN: BookStack – An open source wiki platform and alternative to Confluence

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Post by ssddanbrown »

hardwaresofton wrote: post #4
ssddanbrown wrote: post #2

I've been working on BookStack for over 6 years now, learning a lot about open source project maintainership during that time. Originally developed it while looking for a documentation system for my mixed-technical-skill workplace. Wanted something easy to use without having to get finance involved when increasing our user count. With Confluence backing away from their self-hosted offerings, hopefully many will find…

Bookstack looks like an amazing feat of engineering — it’s overwhelmingly the wiki I want to deploy given other F/OSS options. just today I was showing it to a friend and it is impressive how clean and considered it is. Thanks for maintaining and improving this project

Thank you! This kind of feedback means a lot, provides the fuel to avoid burnout.

Re: Show HN: BookStack – An open source wiki platform and alternative to Confluence

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Post by ssddanbrown »

1cvmask wrote: post #3
ssddanbrown wrote: post #2

I've been working on BookStack for over 6 years now, learning a lot about open source project maintainership during that time. Originally developed it while looking for a documentation system for my mixed-technical-skill workplace. Wanted something easy to use without having to get finance involved when increasing our user count. With Confluence backing away from their self-hosted offerings, hopefully many will find…

We could potentially add passwordless MFA from saas pass to your project. Good luck with it.

That's cool. I recently built MFA into the access flow, with a sight to extend methods where needed, although any instance using the SAML/LDAP/OIDC auth options could enforce MFA on the identity provider side.
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