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Re: Show HN: HackPad is the best wiki ever

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Post by X-Istence »

drivebyacct2 wrote: post #26
X-Istence wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Confluence is the wiki we use where I work and I absolutely hate it (ending tags is like you are opening a tag, so {bold}this would be bold{bold} (example, I don't remember any tags off the top of my head). If something better came along that helped us rather than slowed us down it would be fantastic.

Oh god. I helped support an overly customized Confluence wiki that was to be THE wiki for the entire company one summer. I quickly grew to hate the software quite strongly. Took me a while to be objective about JIRA's other products when I used them later.

JIRA is the bug tracking software. Atlassian is the company.

JIRA is absolutely terrible as well. I can't express in words how much I hate and dislike JIRA, it's horribly slow and bloated user interface and how complicated it makes certain tasks... using it as an Agile tool makes it even worse especially with Greenhopper the add-on.

Re: Show HN: HackPad is the best wiki ever

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Post by bjtitus »

This looks very interesting! I hope you guys keep improving it. I really would like something like Google Wave/Etherpad that is robust and is actually being developed.

I would happily pay money for something like this if the performance and features can be maintained.

Re: Show HN: HackPad is the best wiki ever

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Post by irondavycole »

rorrr wrote: post #32

How is it different from EtherPad and hundreds of its clones/instances?

Designer of EtherPad here. I'm a big fan of HackPad and I encourage people to give it a shot. I get a lot of questions about the best version of EtherPad out there, and HackPad is the one I recommend.

It might not look that different, but they handle similar features in smart ways.

Re: Show HN: HackPad is the best wiki ever

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Post by thamiam »

grusk wrote: post #18

I really like the execution of this. It's like the Quick Notes web extension, however my beef with Quick Notes app is that I've lost some notes because I didn't realize that there might be a maximum character limit (not sure if there is or if my notes got wiped some other way). https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mijlebbfndhelmdpml... Could you make this into a Chrome web app, please?

Yes, please. I would really like something to replace sidewiki for capturing, sharing, and later finding notes about Web sites.

Re: Show HN: HackPad is the best wiki ever

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Post by mintplant »

StavrosK wrote: post #23
king_magic wrote: post #6

I really don't like that I have to sign in with Google or Facebook to try it in read/write mode. Read-only mode is not good enough for me to tell if it's something I want to use, and having to use Google or Facebook just to try it is a dealbreaker for me, sorry. Which is a shame, because it looks neat. Fix that, then I'd be interested in giving it a try. Edit: I missed the ability to sign in without Google/Facebook.…

About your login issues, I integrated BrowserID to a project I'm working on the other day, and my god, am I in love. BrowserID.org is beautiful and very well made, easy to use and easy for the users to understand (you don't really realize you're at a third party website). Integration with django took about ten minutes and I don't have to wrestle with all the forgotten password templates and workflows, changing passwo…

BrowserID looks interesting, but what about on public terminals? The average user may not understand that they're logged in to your site and BrowserID, and as such would leave themselves mistakenly logged in.

See the BrowserID demo site - http://myfavoritebeer.org/ - as an example of this. Once you're logged in, the "logout" button does not truly mean logout - anyone could log you back in in two clicks.

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