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Re: Show HN: HackPad is the best wiki ever

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Post by orph »

damncabbage wrote: post #29

Quick note: read-only mode isn't very read-only. Pasting and typing quickly still works. I clicked a checkbox within the page copy, and the entire page suddenly blanked. (It may have just been a coincidence, though.) Otherwise, looks great. :)

This is probably an IE bug?

Re: Show HN: HackPad is the best wiki ever

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Post by brunoc »

kofman wrote: post #4
jff wrote: post #3

Unfortunate that they don't offer the software itself; I could use this at work, but I don't think we'd be allowed to use it on an external server.

If there's demand, we'll definitely consider offering this.

Github does this perfectly. You get a VM, fire it up and you're good to go.

Re: Show HN: HackPad is the best wiki ever

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Post by skeptical »

I like it but needs to improve many things:

There's no point in including formatting/wysiwyg if the formatting options are so limited. not even the possibility of writing headers?

There's no way to view the source. We're stuck on the wysiwyg editor, include a source view or tab.

No picture upload. While I understand the challenges this raises, you did include a picture embedding feature. Why would I keep my notes on a service that doesn't give me any warranty that the pictures will not be there when I need to access them? If you offer such feature, you should commit to it. Include a picture upload option, limit user diskspace usage and hotlinking if you're worried about server resources.

Keyboard shortcuts. This targets power users, no keyboard shortcuts is a huge deal breaker. No way I'm going to take my hands away from the keyboard while typing. Include keyboard shortcuts.

On the other hand, there are some really cool details. Flawless implementation of linking and searching, the way it should be done.

Re: Show HN: HackPad is the best wiki ever

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Post by modoc »

X-Istence wrote: post #31
drivebyacct2 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Lots of people here seem to dislike Confluence and Jira. What do you folks prefer?

Having used Bugzilla, Trac, Mantis, MediaWiki, and several other tools I 100% prefer Jira and Confluence...

Re: Show HN: HackPad is the best wiki ever

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Post by JoeCortopassi »

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.…

Click "read only", then paste this into your browser bar and hit enter...

  javascript:(function(){modals = {'showModal' : function(){}};})();
...to be able to try it out without signing into Google or Facebook. Doesn't do anything fancy, just overrides the function responsible for the "Sign up" pop up, and replaces it with an empty function.

Hope this doesn't piss anyone off, just trying to be helpful. Seems like a nice product that people will enjoy thoroughly.

Re: Show HN: HackPad is the best wiki ever

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Post by ilaksh »

jff wrote: post #3

Unfortunate that they don't offer the software itself; I could use this at work, but I don't think we'd be allowed to use it on an external server.

The original Etherpad is open source. https://github.com/ether/pad

"Etherpad Lite" is built on node.js which to me makes it more desirable from a developer standpoint for a number of reasons, mostly for the same reasons one would generally favor node.js over Rhino, so I would definitely look into that one first. https://github.com/Pita/etherpad-lite

Hackpad might have a few advantages but the basic concept of tracking individual changes with colors is built-in to Etherpad and Etherpad Lite.

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