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

Post by mjrpes » Sat, Jan 08, 2022, 6:33 PM UTC

ssddanbrown wrote: post #59

maineldc wrote: post #49

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Thank you, thank you, thank you. I use started using bookstack when I realized that I wanted a place for long form / long term storage of documents separates from my Notes / To dos. I love it and I deeply appreciate your hard work. For others that haven't tried it, here's what clicked for me: - An opinionated hierarchy of Book -> Chapter (Optional) -> Page - Great search - WYSIWYG OR Markdown supported - Great integr…

Thank you! I love to hear about the specific features people enjoy. > WYSIWYG OR Markdown I will state that switching between them is pretty flaky at the moment, is done at instance level and can cause HTML in markdown. Is designed to be choose-once-and-leave. That said, in rebuilding the editor I am aiming for easy and instant Markdown & WYSIWYG switching within editor.

Post by qbasic_forever » Sat, Jan 08, 2022, 6:38 PM UTC

bogwog wrote: post #119

As someone who hasn’t used Confluence, how is this different from a regular wiki (e.g. MediaWiki)?

Post by bbkane » Sat, Jan 08, 2022, 6:40 PM UTC

Sheen96 wrote: post #112

Glad to see any alternatives to confluence (or Atlassian in general). I've used Confluence for a good 4 years or so and for the life of me, I can not fathom why anyone would use this for storing documentation for code etc, as opposed to storing things direct in a repo. I can understand it's use somewhat for business folks, but even then, the way of organising things is abysmal, every solution (such as rich text editi…

Post by polote » Sat, Jan 08, 2022, 6:41 PM UTC

dont__panic wrote: post #130

polote wrote: post #125

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> I can not fathom why anyone would use this for storing documentation for code etc, as opposed to storing things direct in a repo. Because storing documentation in repos doesn't work great when you want to organize your documentation, discover or search it. Having thousands of documentation files in a repo, next to the code is unmanageable, much more than thousands of documentation files in Confluence. In Confluence…

Confluence is a fantastic way to ensure that nobody ever finds your documentation. The WYSIWYG editor is so painfully slow, buggy, and laggy, it actually reduces the chance of anybody bothering to update documentation. When organizations change names, URLs change completely and you can sometimes never find a linked page again after it moves. Navigation in confluence is painfully slow, even though it's a bunch of stat…

Post by ssddanbrown » Sat, Jan 08, 2022, 6:47 PM UTC

siculars wrote: post #58

ssddanbrown wrote: post #40

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Yeah, this has been requested a few times. I don't come from a hosting background (Outside of managing my own VPSs) so I don't feel it's something I can personally do (at a level of service I'd be happy with) but the idea of partnering with someone that has experience is something I've though about; The tricky part is finding someone I can trust enough to send users to.

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