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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 »

LilBytes wrote: post #76

This looks PERFECT. I'll trial it out tomorrow. I can see on individual pages (books?) you're tracking changes, e.g. created and last edited. Are these changes tracked in a history page for version control by any chance, ssdanbrown/OP?

> Are these changes tracked in a history page for version control by any chance, ssdanbrown/OP?

Most system changes (Create, Updated, Delete actions) are recorded and displayed in an audit log view for admins. As of the most recentl release, you can trigger webhooks upon any of these; Video example [1].

Changes to pages (where documentation content exists) do have their state changes recorded so you can revert/view/compare across versions of a page. The revision limit is set to 50 by default (I think) but this is configurable.

You can login to the demo as an admin to preview these features if needed [2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zIp1ruGpoI [2] https://demo.bookstackapp.com/login?email=admin@example.com&...

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

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Post by philonoist »

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.

I apologize but may I know what you mean by "saas pass"?

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

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Post by theelix »

NmAmDa wrote: post #54
throwaway984393 wrote: post #33

I can't say I would use BookStack. The demo doesn't show the same sort of ease of use that Confluence has, nor the features. I really like Outline https://www.getoutline.com/ as it is open source, self hosted and free if you don't use the Enterprise features. It really does seem to be a Confluence replacement. https://www.getoutline.com/compare/confluence-alternative

You need to use slack or google for the selfhost setup. Which is non starter for many people.

Personally I managed to run Outline using a standard OIDC software like Keycloak. While more troublesome it should work just fine without external tools

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

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Post by jraph »

zozbot234 wrote: post #79
jraph wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Future XWiki employee (should start in March!). Feel free to reach out to XWiki [1] [2], they'll be happy to answer your question and address your specific needs. They are nice. Feel free to contact me if you'd prefer but I'll be less competent than them for obvious reasons. I don't know many things about XWiki yet, but the main difference between MediaWiki and XWiki is probably the X in XWiki (eXtensible). XWiki is…

There is a "semantic" extension to MediaWiki that makes it easier to support many enterprise use cases with data visualizations, custom queries (potentially referencing information from multiple wiki pages) and the like. It is somewhat widely used for wikis other than Wikipedia, that can simply defer to the Wikidata project for those needs.

I didn't know! Linking for whoever would like to look into this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki

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

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Post by anyfactor »

I haven't used Confluence or BookStack in this case. Does these platforms have git like version controlling and collaboration in them? What about login and admin stuff? Also gitbased blog platform like architecture perhaps?

I am a big fan of journaling, documentation and having a knowledge hub. I am not sure what is out there for a monolithic yet shared and controllable knowledge hub.

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

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Post by toper-centage »

anyfactor wrote: post #87

I haven't used Confluence or BookStack in this case. Does these platforms have git like version controlling and collaboration in them? What about login and admin stuff? Also gitbased blog platform like architecture perhaps? I am a big fan of journaling, documentation and having a knowledge hub. I am not sure what is out there for a monolithic yet shared and controllable knowledge hub.

There's is good versionimg in confluence, and also good search. The editor is also nice (improved a lot since a few years ago). Compared to the mess that is JIRA, I actually like confluence.

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

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Post by annoyingnoob »

This looks really nice.

Atlassian did not consider small businesses with regulatory requirements when it decided to push everyone to the cloud. Atlassian's cloud cannot ever meet my regulatory requirements, by 2024 I need to replace Confluence. There is no way I can pay for the cost of the Data Center version of Confluence you'll be able to self-host, over $20K/year to self-host Confluence is a non-starter.

Does BookStack index uploaded files for search? If so, what formats does it support?

Can pages (or books) be exported in common formats?

Any plans to support Postgres in the future?

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